Jack Kent Cooke: King of Content Rainmakers

Welcome to the Rainmakers podcast! This show is going to be an exploration on the world’s best investors from past and present to see how exactly they made their returns. In this episode we will be going over the career of Jack Kent Cooke. Cooke became a billionaire by finding creative ways to operate media businesses. He helped Roy Thomson operate struggling radio stations to then partnering with him to buy different magazines and then became a pioneer in the sports business.

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Mark Leonard Presentation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uHEOdyn622mABGv7rd6Y_uQL1ngr94z6/view?pli=1

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Savannah Bananas: https://youtu.be/T5RkB7_qNh8?si=Slip5PnA3q9EzyNa

Paul Enright Invest like the Best: https://podcasts.apple.com/cz/podcast/paul-enright-the-buy-side-primer/id1154105909?i=1000517881913

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Sources:

The Last Mogul by Adrian Havill

Jack Kent Cooke: A Career Biography by Adrian Kinnane

Market Place: Teleprompter: Fight Widens by Robert Metz

Jack Cooke: Genial But Tough by Steve E Prokesch