What Can the World’s Oldest Companies Teach Us About Longevity? Notes from the Field with Eric Markowitz

Eric Markowitz is a Partner and the Director of Research at investment firm Nightview Capital and a former investigative journalist with bylines in The New Yorker, GQ, Fast Company, and other outlets. A near-death experience prompted Eric to wonder why some cultures, companies, and products dramatically outlast others. Eric is travelling the globe – from Central American rainforests to centuries-old businesses in Europe and Asia – on a quest to answer one question: what allows a rare few systems to outlast? His forthcoming book – titled Outlast – will be published by Scribner, the flagship imprint of Simon & Schuster and home to legends like Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Eric has just returned from trips through Italy, the United States, and Japan, and in this episode we are learning from Eric’s “notes from the field.”