Poor Charlie's almanack
Charlie Munger · 2005
Also recommended by: Bill Gates · John Collison · Marc Andreessen · Naval Ravikant · Daniel Ek · Patrick Collison · Ramit Sethi · Shane Parrish · Tim Ferriss · Warren Buffett
Co-founder and CEO · Dropbox
Books recommended by Drew Houston
Drew Houston is the co-founder and CEO of Dropbox, a cloud storage and file synchronization service that helped popularize the concept for hundreds of millions of users around the world. A graduate of MIT, he launched Dropbox in 2007 after forgetting his flash drive and deciding to solve the problem once and for all.
His reading recommendations reflect the mindset of a technical founder who had to learn to build and scale a company from scratch — with an emphasis on leadership, product, and the human challenges of managing rapidly growing organizations.
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Hard Thing about Hard Things
Ben Horowitz · 2014
”And one of the great things that Ben wrote in his book The Hard Thing About Hard Things is the hardest part of being a CEO is managing your psychology.”
Also recommended by: Bernardinho · Andrew Ng · Marc Andreessen · André Valle · Marty Cagan · Larry Page · Mark Zuckerberg · Peter Thiel · Peter Attia · Tim Ferriss
The Innovator's Dilemma
Clayton M. Christensen · 1997
”It’s a book about how businesses get disrupted, and a lot of those themes are why startups can succeed and thrive even when there are big competitors who you would think would just wipe ’em out”
Also recommended by: André Valle · Marc Andreessen · Mark Cuban · Jeff Bezos · Marc Benioff · Michael Bloomberg · Steve Jobs · Ben Horowitz
High output management
Andrew S. Grove · 1983
”it was introduced to me as the best book on management ever written. And I agree”
Also recommended by: Brian Chesky · Marc Andreessen · Larry Ellison · Tobi Lutke · John Doerr · Mark Zuckerberg · Ben Horowitz
Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition
Geoffrey A. Moore · 1991
”It’s like how do technology products make their way from early adopters t the mainstream.”
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert M. Pirsig · 1974
”You talked about engineers who like dismiss all these things that can’t be fit into an algorithm or that don’t have some kind of mathematical rigor underpinning them, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is about that question.”
Getting to Yes
Roger Fisher
”there’s a book called Getting the Yes, which is about principled negotiation, and I still think about and apply a lot of those concepts today.”
Emotional Intelligence
Daniel Goleman · 1995
”it’s nonfiction, but it spelled out something that I just didn’t know you could kind of break down in a logical way. And, suddenly, I had this understanding about the world that I didn’t have before”
Guerrilla marketing
Jay Conrad Levinson · 1984
”It’s like how do you do that when you have no money? The tactic of putting a video on Hacker News or creating a viral video, that was a seed that was planted by reading Guerilla Marketing.”