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):
- “How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story” by Billy Gallagher
- “The Spotify Play” by Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud
- “The Four Steps to the Epiphany” by Steve Blank
- “Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager” by James Stanier
- “Tesla. Inventor of the Electrical Age” by W. Bernard Carlson
- “How to Win Friends & Influence People” by Dale Carnegie
- “Amazon Unbound” by Brad Stone
- “Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition” by Geoffrey A. Moore
- “Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber” by Mike Isaac
- “No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention” by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer
- “Tim Cook: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level” by Leander Kahney
- “Think Twice” by Michael J. Mauboussin
- “The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others” by Tali Sharot
- “Walt Disney: An American Original” by Bob Thomas
- “The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less” by Barry Schwartz
- “The Google Guys: Inside the Brilliant Minds of Google Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin” by Richard L. Brandt
- “Netflixed: The Epic Battle for America’s Eyeballs” by Gina Keating
- “The Making of a Manager” by Julie Zhuo
- “Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal” by Nick Bilton
- “No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram” by Sarah Frier
- “Start With Why” by Sinek Simon
- “The Airbnb Story” by Leigh Gallagher
- “The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change” by Camille Fournier
- “The Facebook Effect” by David Kirkpatrick
- “Steve Jobs” by Walter Isaacson
- “Make It, Don’t Fake It” by Sabrina Horn
- “7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy” by Hamilton Helmer
- “The Founders” by Jimmy Soni
- “Elon Musk” by Walter Isaacson