My book recommendations

last updated on 27 November 2024

I like readings books related to building a company, managing people, big tech company stories and their founder autobiographies and biographies. Here’s a list of such books that I’ve read so far and I fully recommend reading them (I keep this list up to date, I update this blog post, I put the items below in a random order):

  1. “How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story” by Billy Gallagher
  2. “The Spotify Play” by Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud
  3. “The Four Steps to the Epiphany” by Steve Blank
  4. “Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager” by James Stanier
  5. “Tesla. Inventor of the Electrical Age” by W. Bernard Carlson
  6. “How to Win Friends & Influence People” by Dale Carnegie
  7. “Amazon Unbound” by Brad Stone
  8. “Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition” by Geoffrey A. Moore
  9. “Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber” by Mike Isaac
  10. “No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention” by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer
  11. “Tim Cook: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level” by Leander Kahney
  12. “Think Twice” by Michael J. Mauboussin
  13. “The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others” by Tali Sharot
  14. “Walt Disney: An American Original” by Bob Thomas
  15. “The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less” by Barry Schwartz
  16. “The Google Guys: Inside the Brilliant Minds of Google Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin” by Richard L. Brandt
  17. “Netflixed: The Epic Battle for America’s Eyeballs” by Gina Keating
  18. “The Making of a Manager” by Julie Zhuo
  19. “Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal” by Nick Bilton
  20. “No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram” by Sarah Frier
  21. “Start With Why” by Sinek Simon
  22. “The Airbnb Story” by Leigh Gallagher
  23. “The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change” by Camille Fournier
  24. “The Facebook Effect” by David Kirkpatrick
  25. “Steve Jobs” by Walter Isaacson
  26. “Make It, Don’t Fake It” by Sabrina Horn
  27. “7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy” by Hamilton Helmer
  28. “The Founders” by Jimmy Soni
  29. “Elon Musk” by Walter Isaacson
  30. “That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea” by Marc Randolph