Books like The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

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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 technology.

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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.

03

No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention

Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer · Business

No Rules Rules is Reed Hastings's account of the management philosophy that has governed Netflix since the company pivoted from DVDs to streaming and built one of the most watched entertainment platforms in the world.

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04

Rework

Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson · Business

Rework is Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson's deliberately provocative argument against most conventional wisdom about building a business.

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05

Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace · Business

Creativity, Inc.

Both dig into leadership.

06

Beyond Entrepreneurship

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.

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Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't

Verne Harnish · Business

Scaling Up is Verne Harnish's update to his earlier Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, substantially revised and expanded to cover the full range of challenges a company faces as it grows from a small entrepreneurial team to a scaled organization.

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The Ride of a Lifetime

Robert Iger · Business

The Ride of a Lifetime is Robert Iger's account of his fifteen years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company, from his appointment in 2005 to his planned retirement in 2020.

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Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business

Gino Wickman · Business

Traction introduces the Entrepreneurial Operating System, a practical framework for running a small to mid-sized business with more clarity, accountability, and traction.

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10

Behind the Cloud

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.

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Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You

John Warrillow · Business

Built to Sell is John Warrillow's argument that every business owner — regardless of whether they ever intend to sell — should build their company as if they were going to.

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Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products

Marty Cagan and Chris Jones · Business

Empowered is Marty Cagan and Chris Jones's guide to what separates product organizations that consistently build products people love from those that operate as feature factories.

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