Books Recommended by Drew Houston
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Guerilla Marketing
Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Making Big Profits from Your Small Business
Jay Conrad Levinson
Source: "[About] how do you get attention and users for your product if you have no money? The tactic of putting a video on Hacker News or creating a viral video, that was a seed that was planted by reading [this book]." - Drew Houston
1 recommenderZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
An Inquiry Into Values
Robert M. Pirsig
Source: "[There are] engineers who [dismiss] all these things that can’t be fit into an algorithm, or that don’t have some kind of mathematical rigor underpinning them, [this book] is about that question." - Drew Houston
Emotional Intelligence
Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
Daniel Goleman
Source: "It’s nonfiction, but it spelled out something that I just didn’t know you could kind of break down in a logical way. And, suddenly, I had this understanding about the world that I didn’t have before." - Drew Houston
The Innovator's Dilemma
When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
Clayton M. Christensen
Source: "About how businesses get disrupted, and a lot of those themes are why startups can succeed and thrive even when there are big competitors who you would think would just wipe ’em out." - Drew Houston
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Ben Horowitz
Source: "One of the great things that [the author] wrote in [this book] is the hardest part of being a CEO is managing your psychology." - Drew Houston
Crossing the Chasm
Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers
Geoffrey A. Moore
Source: "It’s [about] how do technology products make their way from early adopters to the mainstream." - Drew Houston
The Effective Executive
The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
Peter F. Drucker
Source: "I think one of the most valuable concepts from [this book] is measuring your time." - Drew Houston
Getting to Yes
Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
Roger Fisher
Source: "About principled negotiation, and I still think about and apply a lot of those concepts today." - Drew Houston
Principles
Life and Work
Ray Dalio
Source: "Sketched really concise and good thoughts for [how to approach life]." - Drew Houston
25 recommendersArianna HuffingtonBen GreenfieldBill GatesBryan JohnsonDiddyDoug McMillonDrew HoustonDustin MoskovitzGary VaynerchukHoward MarksJack DorseyKevin SystromLex FridmanMarc BenioffMark CubanMichael BloombergNaval RavikantReed HastingsTim FerrissTony RobbinsAusten AllredPatrick O'ShaughnessyTom BilyeuMarty CaganJames ClearHigh Output Management
Andrew S. Grove
Source: "The best book on management ever written." - Drew Houston
Poor Charlie's Almanack
The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
Charlie Munger
Source: "A great book." - Drew Houston
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