Billion Dollar PDFs (billiondollarpdf.com)

Move billions of dollars != help society in any meaningful way. In fact many of the cited papers have been considered extremely harmful to society.

The facebook pitch deck is a broken link

edit: same with youtube

I liked the idea, but this literally could have been a list. The AI-generated pages with filler text create a stark contrast in utility compared to the influential nature of the listed papers.

Wild to see NFT nothingburgers next to "real ideas". Also very bizarre to see 2026 thinkpieces floating around in the same space as Gates' internet memos.

Maybe these are more million dollar PDFs than billion dollar ones, if only because there's enough VC money churning around for "friends" to give any idea by people in a certain segment a minimum of funding no matter how bad it is.

What a stupid list. Heavily biased. I'd just like to point out that a large bulk of these papers depend on the existence of the computer and yet Alan Turing is not even on the list.

Really interesting list, thanks.

The link to the original for Scion Capital is a 404 FYI: https://billiondollarpdf.com/entry/burry-scion-subprime/ - the original seems to be included towards the end in the PDF at the top of https://www.michael-burry.com/scion-capital-michael-burrys-l... and is fascinating reading.

What does "strict receipt" mean? Every entry seems to be labelled "strict receipt".

EDIT: The Warren Buffett one is also a 404: https://billiondollarpdf.com/entry/superinvestors-graham-dod... - what's going on? Are people taking these PDFs down in response to high traffic from this site? Or you put these links up without checking them?

https://www.superinvesting.com/pdf/The-Superinvestors-of-Gra...

I imagined there would be something about solar panels or other influential real world tech but its all crypto, AI and boring finance

navelgazing.com was taken

This site does a terrible job of curating what is supposed to be a limited, selective list. I tried to access the first 60 entries. 11 of them were dead links. 4 were just links to advertisements for books (very much not a "memo, a deck, a whitepaper, a thread").

Should we then add a pdf for early pdf specs?

*according to techbros

god i hate this so much

Given that the stock market completely crashed upon the release of DeepSeek-R1 it's fair to say that it was a negative billion dollar PDF.