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Books like Brotopia
The best books like Brotopia are Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber, and The Lean Startup. Brotopia by Emily Chang is about gender inequality, silicon valley culture, tech industry. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
John Carreyrou · Business
Bad Blood is Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou's account of Theranos, the blood-testing startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes that claimed its proprietary technology could run hundreds of diagnostic tests from a single finger-prick of blood.
Both dig into silicon valley culture.
Read the summary → - Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
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Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
Mike Isaac · Business
Super Pumped is New York Times technology reporter Mike Isaac's account of Uber's rise from a San Francisco startup to a $70 billion company — and of the internal chaos, ethical failures, and leadership battles that nearly destroyed it.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - The Lean Startup
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Eric Ries · Business
The Lean Startup is Eric Ries's argument that the biggest cause of startup failure is not building the wrong product — it's spending months or years building something before finding out whether anyone wants it.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram
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No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram
Sarah Frier · Business
No Filter is Sarah Frier's account of Instagram's founding, its acquisition by Facebook, and the decade-long tension between Instagram's founders and Mark Zuckerberg over what the product should become.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - Weapons of Math Destruction
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Cathy O'Neil · Science
Weapons of Math Destruction is mathematician and data scientist Cathy O'Neil's investigation of how algorithms — statistical models used to make decisions about people's lives — can perpetuate and amplify inequality rather than reduce it.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - The Diversity Bonus
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Scott E. Page · Business
The Diversity Bonus is Scott Page's empirical argument that diverse teams — diverse in perspective, training, experience, and identity — systematically outperform homogeneous ones on complex cognitive tasks.
Both dig into diversity.
Read the summary → - The Monk and the Riddle
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Randy Komisar · Business
Randy Komisar spent years as a virtual CEO and partner at Kleiner Perkins helping founders build companies, and The Monk and the Riddle draws on that experience to make a case about what startup culture gets badly wrong.
Both dig into silicon valley culture.
Read the summary → - You Can Negotiate Anything
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Herb Cohen · Business
You Can Negotiate Anything is Herb Cohen's argument that negotiation is not a special skill reserved for diplomats and dealmakers but a basic life competence exercised continuously — in salary conversations, purchases, relationships, and workplace conflicts.
Both dig into power dynamics.
Read the summary → - The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs · Economics
The Death and Life of Great American Cities is Jane Jacobs's 1961 argument against the dominant urban planning orthodoxy of her era, and one of the most influential works of urban theory ever written.
Both dig into diversity.
Read the summary → - 100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them
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100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them
Christopher Mayer · Business
Christopher Mayer built this book on research conducted earlier by Thomas Phelps, whose 1972 book 100 to 1 in the Stock Market studied stocks that returned one hundred times their purchase price.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
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7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
Hamilton Helmer · Business
7 Powers is Hamilton Helmer's attempt to distill the full landscape of business strategy into a single rigorous framework.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - A World Without Email
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Cal Newport · Business
A World Without Email is Cal Newport's most targeted critique of modern knowledge work culture.
A kindred business read.
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Books like Brotopia: quick answers
What are the best books like Brotopia?
The best books like Brotopia by Emily Chang are Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou, Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac, The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram by Sarah Frier, Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Brotopia, such as gender inequality, silicon valley culture, tech industry.
What should I read after Brotopia?
A natural next read after Brotopia is Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou. Both dig into silicon valley culture. Other strong choices are Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac, The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram by Sarah Frier.
What books are similar to Brotopia by Emily Chang?
Brotopia centers on gender inequality, silicon valley culture, tech industry. Books with a similar feel include Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou, Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac, The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram by Sarah Frier, Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil, The Diversity Bonus by Scott E. Page — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
