“Fascinating read. Really the first time I've read a book that has simultaneously felt like history to me, but recent memory to my mother. I asked her if she remembered the introduction of the TV remote, for example, and she could very easily. But being a young person, I of course was not alive for most of cable's history. So all in all that was a neat experience.“

— Matthew

September 28, 2020

“Excellent read - highly recommended for anyone with an interest in business. John Malone started at TCI at an extremely difficult time in the business (high debt, having to deal with regulators in multiple cities, etc) and the baptism by fire probably helped to forge his signature hard headed, frugal and opportunistic capital discipline. Not all Buffett's book recommendations are equally good but this probably stands among the best (at least for the business reader).“

— Sy. C

March 14, 2018

“My main complaint about the popular finance book The Outsiders: Eight unconventional CEOs by Thorndike was that there wasn't enough detail about each individual person ... Well this book certainly checks the John Malone box! Cable Cowboy was a comprehensive and thorough review of his amazing career at TCI. Financially gifted, Malone was also a ruthless deal-maker and operator that managed to become the preeminent cable and media industry tycoon.

Pretty much a must read for anyone that has an interest in business I'd say.“

— Todd Wood

February 25, 2015

“Surprisingly interesting book. I didn’t have a strong grasp on the history of the big cable companies. They always just kind of seemed to be these huge entities with awful customer service. Turns out, there’s a long backstory there. And it’s interesting. Cable Cowboys does a good job explaining it all as it follows John Malone and his team at Telecommunications Inc (TCI). “

— Will Clausen

November 1, 2018

“…[W]hat truly makes this book great is the robust profile of Malone that Robichaux gives us. It’s not just a fawning glow piece. Malone is cast as a monster as much as a maven, mortal as much as invincible, an insecure sociopath as much as a loving family man. “

— Alex

July 18, 2020

“This is one of the best business books I've ever read. I learned an unbelievable amount about the history of cable and Internet from this book, and it has given me a much greater appreciation of why technology, media, and telecom are often grouped together. This book is as much about the history of the cable industry as it is about the life of John Malone, its central figure. From the early days of pulling local broadcast signals out of the sky to the dotcom bubble, the author does an exhaustive job chronicling all of the significant developments in the industry along the way… Malone comes across as a financial genius in the book, having become CEO of TCI in his early 30s.“

— Zhou Fang

July 23, 2021