You can just read 25 books
17 days ago
- #startups
- #reading
- #books
- Reading 25 books can help outsiders beat experts.
- Founders and GPs shared under-recognized books that shaped their thinking.
- Garrett Langley recommends 'The Wide Wide Sea' and 'Napoleon: A Life'.
- Qasar Younis recommends 'Sam Walton: Made in America'.
- Jesse Zhang recommends 'Man’s Search for Meaning', 'Good to Great', and 'Crossing the Chasm'.
- Ashwin Sreenivas recommends 'The Wright Brothers'.
- Ali Ghodsi recommends multiple books including 'Monetizing Innovation' and 'The Effective Executive'.
- Tarek Mansour recommends 'The Misbehavior of Markets'.
- Shiv Rao recommends 'In Praise of Shadows'.
- David George recommends 'Liftoff and Reentry'.
- Sarah Wang recommends 'Iacocca: An Autobiography'.
- Alex Rampell and Anish Acharya recommend various books.
- Yoko Li recommends 'Why Fish Don’t Exist'.
- Alex Danco recommends 'The Magic Mountain' and 'Crowds and Power'.
- David Booth recommends 'Lifelong Kindergarten'.
- Additional recommendations include 'Steve Jobs', 'Zero to One', and 'Made in Japan'.