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Books like Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days by Jessica Livingston is about entrepreneurship, founder stories, startups. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.

  1. The Startup Playbook
    The Startup Playbook

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    The Startup Playbook

    David S. Kidder · Business

    The Startup Playbook is David Kidder's collection of firsthand lessons from forty prominent founders, including Reid Hoffman, Sara Blakely, Kevin Plank, and Alexis Ohanian.

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  2. Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
    Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

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    Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

    Phil Knight · Memoir

    Shoe Dog is Phil Knight's account of the first two decades of Nike, from the $50 loan he borrowed from his father in 1964 to fund his first shipment of Japanese running shoes to the company's IPO in 1980.

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  3. The Hard Thing About Hard Things
    The Hard Thing About Hard Things

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    The Hard Thing About Hard Things

    Ben Horowitz · Business

    The Hard Thing About Hard Things is Ben Horowitz's account of what it actually feels like to run a company through crisis.

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  4. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
    Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

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    Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

    Peter Thiel · Business

    Zero to One began as notes from a Stanford course Thiel taught on startups in 2012, assembled into a book with co-author Blake Masters.

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  5. The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
    The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

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    The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

    Brad Stone · Business

    The Everything Store is Brad Stone's account of Amazon's founding and growth from a book retailer to one of the most powerful companies in the world.

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  6. 100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them
    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.

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