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Book Recommendations

Book Recommendations from Our Team 📚


Leadership & Management

The Hard Thing About Hard Things - Ben Horowitz [LINK]

The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team - Patrick Lencioni [LINK]

Trillion Dollar Coach - Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, & Alan Eagle [LINK]

CEO Excellence - Carolyn Dewar, Scott Keller, & Vikram Malhotra [LINK]

Principles - Ray Dalio [LINK]

Startup Growth & Strategy

The Lean Startup - Eric Ries [LINK]

Scaling Up Excellence - Robert I. Sutton & Huggy Rao [LINK]

Zero to One - Peter Thiel [LINK]

Competitive Strategy - Michael E. Porter [LINK]

The 4 Disciplines of Execution - Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, & Jim Huling [LINK]

Will & Vision: How Latecomers Grow to Dominate Markets - Grard J. Tellis & Peter N. Golder [LINK]

Innovation & Creativity

Loonshots - Safi Bahcall [LINK]

Made to Stick - Chip Heath & Dan Heath [LINK]

Hidden Genius - Polina Marinova Pompliano [LINK]

Process Innovation - Thomas H. Davenport [LINK]

The Martian - Andy Weir [LINK]

People & Teams

Who Moved My Cheese - Spencer Johnson [LINK]

Peopleware - Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister [LINK]

Dream Big - Bob Goff [LINK]

Search Inside Yourself - Chade-Meng Tan [LINK]

Mergers, Acquisitions, and Finance

Agile M&A by Kison Patel [LINK]

Mergers, Acquisitions, and Other Restructuring Activities by Donald DePamphilis [LINK]

Corporate Valuation by Robert W. Holthausen & Mark E. Zmijewski [LINK]

Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick - Chris Bradley, Martin Hirt, & Sven Smit [LINK]

Biographies & Industry Stories

Valley of Genius - Adam Fisher [LINK]

The Everything Store - Brad Stone [LINK]

Stealing Myspace - Julia Angwin [LINK]

A Man for All Markets - Edward O. Thorp [LINK]

The Associates - Richard Rayner [LINK]

Economics & Governance

Governing of the Commons - Elinor Ostrom [LINK]

The Invisible Hook - Peter T. Leeson [LINK]

Venture Capital

The Business of Venture Capital - Mahendra Ramsinghani [LINK]

The Venture Mindset - Ilya Strebulaev & Alex Dang [LINK]

Venture Deals - Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson [LINK]

Secrets of Sand Hill Road - Scott Kupor [LINK]

The Power Law - Sebastian Mallaby [LINK]

Alternative Investments

Marketing Alternative Investments - Hemali Dassani & Nanda Kuppuswamy [LINK]

The Private Equity Playbook - Adam Coffey [LINK]

The Allocator's Edge - Phil Huber [LINK]