Tim Ferriss: "A great book"
Larry Page: "Ben's book is a great read - with uncomfortable truths about entrepreneurship and how to lead to a company.
It's also an inspiring story of a business rebirth through sheer willpower."
Andrew Wilkinson: "'The Hard Things About Hard Things' by Ben Horowitz is one of the best business books I've picked up in years."
Marc Andreessen mentioned 'The Hard Thing about Hard Things' on 'The Tim Ferriss Show' podcast.
Blake Scholl: "'The Hard Thing about Hard Things' is good."
One of Max Levchin's answers to 'What's your favourite business book you'd advise to young entrepreneurs?'
One of the books Keith Rabois recommends for entrepreneurs.
One of five business books Chris Dixon recommended on Twitter.
Peter Thiel: “It can sometimes seem as if one must learn everything old before one can try anything new.
Adam Grant does a masterful job showing that is not the case; we are lucky to have him as a guide.”
Sheryl Sandberg: “Originals is one of the most important and captivating books I have ever read, full of surprising and powerful ideas.
Seth Godin: “An urgent must read, a seminal work that will surprise you on every single page.
Kat Cole: "One of my favorite books"
One of Richard Branson's top books to read in a lifetime.
Anthony Pompliano: "One of the best books I read in 2017"
Brian Armstrong: "Celebrate the creators in the world (even when they struggle). They may be more valuable than we think."
Blake Scholl: "Far and away my favorite book is Atlas Shrugged"
Travis Kalanick mentioned 'Atlas Shrugged' in a Washington Post interview.
Fred Wilson recommends 'Atlas Shrugged' for entrepreneurs.
Elon Musk: "I know it's cliche, but Lord of the Rings is my favorite book ever."
Naval Ravikant: "Loved Lord of The Rings and other fiction when [I was] younger."
As a teenager, Peter Thiel's favorite book was 'The Lord of the Rings,' which he read again and again.
Paul Graham's answer to "Any book recommendations for young adults?"
Reid Hoffman: "The book that I’ve most often read is Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.
Naval Ravikant: "Best book I've read since Sapiens (far less mainstream, though)."
Brian Armstrong: "Was really ahead of it's time, a lot of original thinking (some really out there stuff too)."
Changpeng Zhao: "Just read the Sovereign Individual again. Amazed that it was written before 1997.
Talks about internet currencies, etc. Good read."
One of Sahil Lavingia's most recommended books.
Patrick Collison: "Correctly places enormous value on execution and on culture. However, I think this sometimes leads to insufficient importance being placed on strategy.
Hamilton Helmer's deeply incisive work will hopefully help correct that"
At Spotify the 7 Powers are widely used as we discuss new initiatives.
One of the books Keith Rabois recommends for entrepreneurs.
It’s like a soundtrack to the visuals and shapes…of what we’re creating”
Cathie Wood said The Bible is the most important book she has ever read, in an interview on the Pomp Podcast.
Peter Thiel said The New Testament has influenced him more than The Old Testament.
Donald Trump: "The bible means a lot to me"
One of Peter Thiel's favorite books.
Naval Ravikant: "Great book."
One of Peter Thiel's favorite books.
The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things.
Thiel begins with the contrarian premise that we live in an age of technological stagnation, even if we’re too distracted by shiny mobile devices to notice. Information technology has improved rapidly, but there is no reason why progress should be limited to computers or Silicon Valley. Progress can be achieved in any industry or area of business. It comes from the most important skill that every leader must master: learning to think for yourself.
Doing what someone else already knows how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But when you do something new, you go from 0 to 1. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. Tomorrow’s champions will not win by competing ruthlessly in today’s marketplace. They will escape competition altogether, because their businesses will be unique.
Zero to One presents at once an optimistic view of the future of progress in America and a new way of thinking about innovation: it starts by learning to ask the questions that lead you to find value in unexpected places.
This is a powerful exploration of the debilitating impact that politically-correct “multiculturalism” has had upon higher education and academic freedom in the United States. In the name of diversity, many leading academic and cultural institutions are working to silence dissent and stifle intellectual life.
This book exposes the real impact of multiculturalism on the institution most closely identified with the politically correct decline of higher education—Stanford University. Authored by two Stanford graduates, this book is a compelling insider’s tour of a world of speech codes, “dumbed-down” admissions standards and curricula, campus witch hunts, and anti-Western zealotry that masquerades as legitimate scholarly inquiry.
Sacks and Thiel use numerous primary sources—the Stanford Daily, class readings, official university publications—to reveal a pattern of politicized classes, housing, budget priorities, and more. They trace the connections between such disparate trends as political correctness, the gender wars, Generation X nihilism, and culture wars, showing how these have played a role in shaping multiculturalism at institutions like Stanford.
The authors convincingly show that multiculturalism is not about learning more; it is actually about learning less. They end their comprehensive study by detailing the changes necessary to reverse the tragic disintegration of American universities and restore true academic excellence.