Challenges in Publishing a Contentious Book

Rob Copeland is a finance reporter for The New York Times. His recent book is The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend.

“If I stab you, I'm going to stab you in the chest, not the back. You're going to see it coming. ... But if you're going to tell me something's wrong, you have to keep talking. I'm not going to take your word for it. I have a reason for why I believe my reporting to be true, and I'm going to present it to you as best I can. But just because you say something's wrong doesn't make it so.”

Show notes:

• @realrobcopeland
• Copeland's New York Times archive
• Copeland’s Wall Street Journal archive
• 02:00 The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend (St. Martin’s Press • 2023)
• 20:00 The Vow (HBO)
• 27:00 Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (John Carreyou • Vintage • 2020)
• 29:00 "#557: Adam Grant" (Longform Podcast • Nov 2023)
• 29:00 Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World (Adam Grant • Penguin Books • 2017)
• 31:00 "Elon Musk Says He Lives in a $50,000 House. He Doesn’t Talk About the Austin Mansion." (Wall Street Journal • Dec 2021)
• 37:00 Principles: Life and Work (Ray Dalio • Avid Reader Press • 2017)
• 46:00 Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon (Michael Lewis • W. W. Norton & Company • 2023)

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