The Best Silicon Valley Books

"Gives an overview of entrepreneurship and innovation." - Andrew Ng

List of books Bill Gates read in 2012.

"Jam-packs every useful lesson about building and scaling companies into a single, digestible book." - Aaron Levie

"A bunch of really great interviews [Jessica] did with a bunch of just OGs of entrepreneurship." - Alexis Ohanian

"Leadership gold—you won’t forget the stories or the lessons." - Brené Brown

"Made [my co-founder and I] think, 'Well, if these guys could do it, why can’t we?'" - Alexis Ohanian

"Substantially above average." - Patrick Collison

"A must must must read!!" - Arianna Huffington

Keith Rabois recommended this book on a Medium blog post.

"If I had to pick one book that changed the way I look at investing, this would be it." - DJ Vlad

"[The author] is a fearless entrepreneur who worked hard to help early online merchants get off the ground. Some of them went on to become giants, like Amazon." - Eric Schmidt

"I’m a big fan [of this book]." - MMM

"Kept getting recommended to me by people I respected and it didn't disappoint." - Alexis Ohanian

"Good." - Paul Graham

"The untold story behind Blackberry. I didn’t expect much from this book, but WAY more impressive and interesting than I thought it’d be." - Noah Kagan

"The history of how great ideas evolve." - Chris Fussell

Keith Rabois recommended this book on a Medium blog post.

"Awesome story about how ig came to be and its impact broadly on human interaction." - Casey Neistat

"Good read." - Alexis Ohanian

"I found Bill's ability to translate the qualities of a great sports coach into coaching some of the world's top business leaders truly remarkable." - Maria Sharapova

"I couldn’t put down this thriller with a tragic ending." - Bill Gates