The Unusual Billionaires, Saurabh Mukherjea
The Unusual Billionaires, Saurabh Mukherjea
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The Unusual Billionaires

Author: Saurabh Mukherjea

Narrator: Gaurav Marwa

Unabridged: 9 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/04/2018


Synopsis

What makes a company truly outstanding?
What is the secret sauce of delivering successful results year-on-year?
What is common to Asian Paints, HDFC Bank, Marico, Axis Bank, Hindustan Unilever and Berger Paints?
They are Unusual Companies, built by Unusual Billionaires. The Unusual Billionaires tells the story of eight, truly outstanding companies which delivered 10 per cent revenue growth over the last ten years and 15 per cent return on capital employed. In simple words, these companies defeated 5000 other public listed companies to deliver high growth while maintaining profitability year-on-year for the last decade. How did these companies do it? Why couldn’t this be reciprocated by other companies? What are they doing differently?
Saurabh Mukherjea, bestselling author of Gurus of Chaos, delivers an outstanding book with lessons to learn from these eight businesses. Mukherjea tells you why focusing on the core business could save a company’s life or how giving control to top management could be a boon. Packed with these learnings are riveting corporate stories of how Hindustan Unilever made aggressive bids to buy Mariwala’s business, but had to sell it to the same company in a few years, or how Page Industries found an exciting way to stop unionization at their manufacturing units. It also includes the turnaround of Axis Bank and the boardroom coup that led to its chairman’s downfall, and how Vijay Mallya lost control of Asian Paints to the Dhingra Brothers.
These and many more makes this book a mandatory read for all corporate leaders to simulate and implement.

About The Author

Saurabh Mukherjea is the CEO of institutional equities at Ambit Capital, an Indian investment bank. In 2014 and 2015, he was rated as the leading equity strategist in India by the Asiamoney polls. Mukherjea has spent most of the past decade trying to construct and implement systematic methods for analysing Indian companies in the midst of the chaos that surrounds the Indian stock market. A London School of Economics alumnus, Mukherjea is also a CFA charter holder. He lives in Mumbai with his wife and two children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Nikhil on January 15, 2021

It is a collection of business case studies of 7 extraordinarily successful companies. It gave an insight into a world that was alien to me. Every page taught me something new. Value investing is important and this book made it so interesting. Having an engineering background I had zero knowledge of b......more

Goodreads review by Kushal on July 05, 2017

Most folks from the so-called premier engineering colleges today - have blinders on when they look at the Tech world - Google, Amazon, Flipkart and Apple are the companies we admire, read about and idolize. And when we launch startups in India we try and emulate them. But India is different and Indi......more

Goodreads review by Parth on November 28, 2016

'Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye'- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly. An absolute eye opener for finance guys only? No, not really. Here's a book that should be read by everyone in order to improve their financia......more

Goodreads review by Alok on August 26, 2020

India has always been known(branded?) as the 'land of sages', which in effect meant we are known across the world for pursuing knowledge and asceticism and abhorring the material world founded upon the concepts such as trading, money, business and currency. Barring a few exceptions, say the Tatas or......more

Goodreads review by Payal on October 06, 2021

This book stands in its own right and it doesn’t need any bush ; Mukherjea’s coffee can investing made him famous , while CCI was about how to invest and make assets , this book is more about the ordinary people and their strategies , which made them billionaires ; and the last chapter , it is about......more