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Reading List
Books and articles I keep around, revisit, or recommend.
Zero to One
Peter Thiel
Measure What Matters
John Doerr
Blitzscaling
Reid Hoffman, Chris Yeh
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz
Creativity, Inc.
Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace
Exponential Organizations
Salim Ismail, Michael S. Malone, Yuri van Geest
The Diary of a CEO
Steven Bartlett
Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution
Uri Levine
Jobs to Be Done
Anthony Ulwick
The Mom Test
Rob Fitzpatrick
Made in America
Sam Walton with John Huey
Losing My Virginity
Richard Branson
Onward
Howard Schultz
The Everything Store
Brad Stone
Steve Jobs
Karen Blumenthal
The Ride of a Lifetime
Robert Iger
Poor Charlie's Almanack
Peter D. Kaufman
Shoe Dog
Phil Knight
Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson
Source Code
Bill Gates
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Walter Isaacson
Einstein: His Life and Universe
Walter Isaacson
Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
The Innovators
Walter Isaacson
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
Steven Levy
The Silicon Boys and Their Valley of Dreams
David A. Kaplan
Facebook: The Inside Story
Steven Levy
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Supercommunicators
Charles Duhigg
The Odyssey
Homer
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Your Erroneous Zones
Wayne W. Dyer
A History of Happiness
Pedro Saborido
Kaizen: The Toyota Method of Continuous Improvement
Daniel Herrero
The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
- Default Alive Or Default Dead?
Paul Graham — Startups
- Before The Startup
Paul Graham — Startups
- How To Raise Money
Paul Graham — Startups
- Investor Herd Dynamics
Paul Graham — Startups
- How To Convince Investors
Paul Graham — Startups
- Do Things That Don't Scale
Paul Graham — Startups
- How To Get Startup Ideas
Paul Graham — Startups
- Startup = Growth
Paul Graham — Startups
- Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas
Paul Graham — Startups
- Schlep Blindness
Paul Graham — Startups
- Founder Control
Paul Graham — Startups
- What We Look For In Founders
Paul Graham — Startups
- Ramen Profitable
Paul Graham — Startups
- Relentlessly Resourceful
Paul Graham — Startups
- Startups In 13 Sentences
Paul Graham — Startups
- YC Page
Y Combinator — Startups
- How to build a seed deck
Y Combinator — Startups
- How to pitch your startup
Y Combinator — Startups
- How to get meetings with investors and raise money
Y Combinator — Startups
Raising money online for startups
Y Combinator — Startups
Different types of investors and their incentives
Y Combinator — Startups
- The Only Thing That Matters
Marc Andreessen — Startups
- Why Software Is Eating the World
Marc Andreessen — Startups
- Good Product Manager / Bad Product Manager
Ben Horowitz — Startups
- How to raise money with Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen — Startups
- Extremely Successful Companies
Sam Altman — Startups
- A Smart Bear
Jason Cohen — Startups
- The Days Are Long but the Decades Are Short
Sam Altman — Knowledge
- Who We Hire
Supabase — Startups
- Weird People
Maraoz — Knowledge
- Things You Should Never Do, Part I
Joel Spolsky — Tech
- The Law of Leaky Abstractions
Joel Spolsky — Tech
- The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code
Joel Spolsky — Tech
- 1997 Letter to Shareholders
Jeff Bezos — Startups
- The Internet Tidal Wave
Bill Gates — Tech
- The Cathedral and the Bazaar
Eric S. Raymond — Tech
- No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering
Frederick P. Brooks Jr. — Tech
- Inside Apple
Adam Lashinsky — Startups
- The Product Engineer Era
Nahuel Alberti — Startups
- The 4 Fits For a $100M+ Product
Brian Balfour — Startups
- Tools & Blogs for Entrepreneurs
Steve Blank — Startups
- Retención 101
Aldo Del Valle — Startups
- Do you love your customers?
Aldo Del Valle — Startups
- A Guide to Seed Fundraising
Geoff Ralston — Startups
- Fundraising Fundamentals
Geoff Ralston — Startups
- How Duolingo Utilises Gamification
RAW — Startups
- How to improve NDR
Stripe — Startups