William Browder (Bill Browder) - Stanford Interview

This is a longer and earlier interview with Bill Browder that the one I posted recently. It is a fascinating interview covering his early life as well as what happened next. I really recommend it - though the short documentary at the end is not that good compared to Bill's own account of it.

William Browder (Bill Browder) - Activist Investor

This is one of he most interesting and unsettling of the accounts of Active Investment. Activist investment is basically taking a badly run company and creating change so that it would be run better. Bill Browder did the whole thing on steroids - he invested in companies that were being criminally embezzled, exposed the scams and created value for the owners by stopping them from being robbed blind. Fantastic idea - just good. A win win for the government, the owners - everybody except for those doing the stealing.

The unsettling thing is when the tables turn, when power rests with the criminals the game changes. The fate of one of the lawyers involved is truly horrific.