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Books like That Will Never Work
The best books like That Will Never Work are Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, and Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future. That Will Never Work by Marc Randolph is about entrepreneurship, startups, leadership. 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.
- 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.
Both dig into entrepreneurship.
Read the summary → - 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.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - 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.
Both dig into startups.
Read the summary → - 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.
Shares startups and leadership with That Will Never Work.
Read the summary → - Beyond Entrepreneurship
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Jim Collins & William Lazier · Business
Beyond Entrepreneurship is Jim Collins's first major book, co-written with William Lazier and published in 1992, before the research that produced Built to Last and Good to Great.
Shares entrepreneurship and leadership with That Will Never Work.
Read the summary → - The Art of the Start 2.0
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Guy Kawasaki · Business
The Art of the Start 2.0 is Guy Kawasaki's updated guide to launching a company, product, or movement.
Shares entrepreneurship and startups with That Will Never Work.
Read the summary → - The Startup Playbook
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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.
Shares entrepreneurship and startups with That Will Never Work.
Read the summary → - Behind the Cloud
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Marc Benioff · Business
Behind the Cloud is Marc Benioff's account of building Salesforce from a startup in his apartment to the first cloud computing company to reach $1 billion in revenue.
Shares entrepreneurship and leadership with That Will Never Work.
Read the summary → - Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
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Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace · Business
Creativity, Inc.
Shares startups and leadership with That Will Never Work.
Read the summary → - Disciplined Entrepreneurship
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Bill Aulet · Business
Bill Aulet's Disciplined Entrepreneurship is a structured walkthrough of 24 steps for building a new venture, developed from MIT's entrepreneurship curriculum and Aulet's own experience as a serial entrepreneur.
Shares entrepreneurship and startups with That Will Never Work.
Read the summary → - Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup
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Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup
Brad Feld and David Cohen · Business
Do More Faster is a collection of short essays and lessons drawn from the TechStars accelerator program, organized by Brad Feld and David Cohen, the program's co-founders.
Shares entrepreneurship and startups with That Will Never Work.
Read the summary → - Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
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Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
Jessica Livingston · Business
Founders at Work is Jessica Livingston's collection of interviews with the founders of some of the most influential technology companies of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Shares entrepreneurship and startups with That Will Never Work.
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Books like That Will Never Work: quick answers
What are the best books like That Will Never Work?
The best books like That Will Never Work by Marc Randolph are Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, Beyond Entrepreneurship by Jim Collins & William Lazier, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with That Will Never Work, such as entrepreneurship, startups, leadership.
What should I read after That Will Never Work?
A natural next read after That Will Never Work is Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight. Both dig into entrepreneurship. Other strong choices are Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz.
What books are similar to That Will Never Work by Marc Randolph?
That Will Never Work centers on entrepreneurship, startups, leadership. Books with a similar feel include Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, Beyond Entrepreneurship by Jim Collins & William Lazier, The Art of the Start 2.0 by Guy Kawasaki — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
