Marc Andreessen Recommended Books

"I always recommend [this book] as my top business book." - Naval Ravikant

List of books Bill Gates read in 2011.

"The ever-popular book about my partner." - Warren Buffett

Patrick Collison labeled this book "particularly great."

Tim Ferriss mentioned this book on Twitter.

"A great book." - Drew Houston

"Probably the best book I’ve read in the last couple of years." - Tobi Lütke

"It's like this book was written just for me. I came away with so many 'aha!' moments that have helped me better understand myself." - Ryan Hoover

"Will cause keen self-reflection!" - Stewart Butterfield

"This book is tremendous. Highly recommend!" - Anthony Pompliano

"A fascinating look into how Adlerian psychology applies to modern life. Keep an open mind when reading this book." - Jodie Cook

"The concepts it presents are provocative and go against a lot of the dominant narratives of the current cultural milieu." - Ali Abdaal

"I highly recommend. It really is the most accessible discussion of brain science you will find." - Sam Harris

"Among the best insights into our brain and behavior." - Vinod Khosla

Bryan Johnson recommended this book on Twitter.

"A bit of a long commitment but worth it. Provocative." - Keith Rabois

"The best book I have ever read on human behavior." - Michael Mauboussin

"This book will change your fucking life." - Joe Rogan

"Have been [this author's] fan for awhile. The book didn't disappoint." - Anthony Pompliano

"Some of the craziest stuff I’ve ever read." - Austen Allred

Tom Bilyeu recommended this book on his website.

"If David Goggins can run a hundred miles on broken legs, what’s possible for you?!" - Jodie Cook

"My favorite book of 2018." - Justin Kan

"Played a big role in shaping my management style." - Mark Zuckerberg

"Unapologetically almost a how to manual, but kind of deconstructs the world of business into first principles." - Tobi Lütke

"[Larry Ellison] considers [this book] his bible when it comes to management concepts." - Subbu Viswanathan

"Andy Grove, who built himself from nothing to run Intel, stopped what he was doing to teach us his magic. And not through some ghostwriter either — Andy wrote this book himself. What an incredible gift." - Ben Horowitz

Keith Rabois recommended this book on a Medium blog post.

"The best book on management ever written." - Drew Houston

Jocko Willink covered this book in "Jocko Podcast" Ep. 98

One of Naval Ravikant's answers to "what are you reading right now?"

"One where I happened to go in to Barnes and Noble the day the book arrives, and I go through it, and it passes my test. I get back to the hotel, and I start reading the book. Before I know it, it’s 2:00 a.m." - George Raveling

"Fantastic book!" - Dominic D'Agostino

"Gave me a lot of new perspectives that I never thought I would even have." - PewDiePie

Most Recommended Books reached out to Ben Greenfield directly.

"My favorite Jocko book." - Casey Neistat

"I am really enjoying this book." - Tim Ferriss

"This book will change your life." - Alexis Ohanian

"Great book by two remarkable men. You want these guys on your side." - Michael Mauboussin

Tom Bilyeu recommended this book on his website.

"Reading and applying these tactics will make you a better person." - Danny Miranda

Bryan Johnson recommended this book on Twitter.

"One of the best books I’ve ever read." - Tobi Lütke

"I love [this book]." - Jason Fried

"I immediately checked out of the library and read completely." - MMM

"An easy way to learn about [Stoicism] and recognize why this resonates." - DHH

"I found when reading it that the quirky philosophy I've been living my life by since 17 matches up exactly with a 2000-year-old philosophy called Stoicism." - Derek Sivers

"A very interesting read." - Phil Libin

"This book is about one super-important concept. You must learn about Strategic Inflection Points, because sooner or later you are going to live through one." - Steve Jobs

Charlie Munger recommended this book in the "Poor Charlie's Almanack" book.

"A great book on strategy." - Ben Horowitz

"[This] basic theme is in the culture of Microsoft." - Bill Gates

"One of favorite books on entrepreneurship." - Vinod Khosla

"We've all read Grove." - Balaji Srinivasan

"The most brilliant and enlightening book I've read in years." - Naval Ravikant

Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.

"Its subject is the history of humanity, focusing on why our species has succeeded and how we should think about the future." - Bill Gates

"Argues [that] economic progress is the greater force [that] is pushing society forward." - Mark Zuckerberg

"I think three or four of my top 20 books of all time are all [this author's. This is my favorite one.]" - Nick Szabo

"It argues compellingly that everything is not only going to be OK in the future, it is surely going to be Fucking Great. That much, I agree with." - MMM

"Square would not exist without the work and persistence of Steve Jobs. I am forever grateful. Amazing read." - Jack Dorsey

"Has me thinking of my old friend. A true visionary." - Bill Gates

"[One of the] biographies of people who have 'built skyscrapers' (my term)." - Peter Attia

Keith Rabois recommended this book on a Medium blog post.

"A biography of the famous Apple CEO. I read the Walter Isaacson biography last year, but found this one slightly better." - Brian Armstrong

"After working with Steve for over 25 years, I feel this book captures with great insight the growth and complexity of a truly extraordinary person." - Ed Catmull

"A book I love." - Anthony Bourdain

"A series of essays about Montaigne, who invented the essay." - Ryan Holiday

"I was blown away." - Jason Calacanis

"Michael is a legend and I don't use that term lightly. Learning from his journey is something that every entrepreneur and executive should do." - Gary Vaynerchuk

Keith Rabois mentioned this book on Twitter.

"It is truly rare to read a book this honest from a living legend. The Hollywood superhero lets us peak behind his mask and understand his weaknesses and methods." - Ben Horowitz

"A must read for unleashing super powers and living in flow." - Jim Kwik

"All about how athletes [seem to] have hacked flow essentially." - Jason Silva

"It opened my eyes to the need to synthesize how I literally feel as a performer and to use training to replicate the best physiology I can." - Adam Fisher

"About creativity and flow states." - Chase Jarvis

"Details how people can get to world-class levels." - Adam Robinson

"[The author] has written the first true guide for protecting a startup from self-sabotage." - Peter Thiel

"For anyone insterested in building, growing, or leading a great company, this book is an incredibly valuable resource." - Mark Zuckerberg

One of Peter Attia's answers to "any books you feel would make your reading list?"

"An inspiring story of a business rebirth through sheer willpower." - Larry Page

"Entertaining more than anything. I read [this book], I was like: I would never work for this guy. But entertaining and some good lessons." - Matt Mullenweg

"A bit dark but it does cover a lot of useful territory on what building an organization is like." - Andrew Ng

"A good biography of Edison." - David Friedberg

"A book about the dynamics of how large-scale, highly random systems behave." - Ben Horowitz

Peter Mallouk mentioned this book on Twitter.

"Quite powerful, albeit often redundant." - Keith Rabois

"I like his ideas a lot, especially in Antifragile and the first half of this book. I've always complained about pundits relative to doers." - Vinod Khosla

"I see this book as a complement to 'Economics in One Lesson.' And it's an excellent read on its own." - Changpeng Zhao

"This was up there with Black Swan and [the author's] other classics." - Chris Dixon

"The first chapter alone will change your life." - Seth Godin

"I wish I had learned the discipline of how to decide when I was younger." - Mike Maples, Jr.

"I read this book all the way through because I found the premise so intriguing. [The author] is a well-known poker player and won a World Series of Poker gold bracelet." - Max Levchin

"So many of [the author's] thoughts on poker and on decision-making in general agreed with mine." - Howard Marks

"An awesome book." - Michael Mauboussin

Jason Fried mentioned this book on Twitter.

"Shows the value of having principles an organization and its leaders believe in and can stick with when it gets hard to do so and real tradeoffs are involved." - Vinod Khosla

"A must-read especially on navigating 'war times.'" - Brianne Kimmel

"I am excited about [this book]." - Brad Feld

"Pretty tough job to follow up his earlier book, but he did. It's truly exceptional." - Marty Cagan

"On a big road trip, I read it out loud to my wife, she read it out loud to me. Then we got the audio book and we listened to Steve Martin read it." - Adam Savage

Jason Calacanis recommended this book on his blog.

"This is the story of my hero. The guy who inspired me to do what I do now." - Bill Nye

Sahil Lavingia recommended this book on Notion.

"Every one of [the author]’s books is appointment reading for me. If he writes it, I make the time to read it." - Brian Koppelman

"[The author] is one of his generation’s finest thinkers." - Steven Pressfield

Raoul Pal recommended this book on Twitter.

"I was living one life, kind of going down the predictable road, and I read this biography. That had a huge impact on me." - Brian Chesky

Most Recommended Books reached out to DJ Vlad directly.

List of books Bill Gates read in 2012.

Ray Dalio mentioned this book in his book, "Principles."

One of the books on Scott Adams' "Persuasion Reading List."

"Fine book but it didn’t need to be an entire book. A blog post would have gotten the point across." - Naval Ravikant

"I love surprising scientific findings, as well as information about how our brains work. [This book] is a treasure trove of both." - Ev Williams

Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post.

"If you are a workout guy, it reminds you of things you already know. That you can push your body and yourself far further than you think." - Cory Booker

"It's hilarious." - LeBron James

"George Foreman once gave me great advice. When I told him my husband ran 100 miles non-stop he said, 'Sara, don't try to understand a man like that. Just love him.'" - Sara Blakely

"[Larry Ellison picked up] his Kindle so he could finish reading [this book]. Larry had noted a page: 'The real battle is won in the mind.'" - Julian Guthrie

Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post.

"I recently recommended. To Trump!" - Garry Kasparov

"I learned so much from [this] book (which reads like a Le Carré)." - Joe Hill

Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."

"[Made me feel a] sense of revelation." - Michael Mauboussin

"An allusion to [the author]'s groundbreaking 'Whole Earth Catalog,' which merged technology with the counterculture and encouraged global consciousness." - Steven Pinker

Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."

"Incredible book." - Jack Dorsey

"Describes how one of the things he did was spawn a back-to-the-land movement with people growing their own vegetables and forming communes." - Matt Ridley

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.

Tristan Harris mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast.

Charles Poliquin recommended this book in the "Tools of Titans" book.

"[The author has] a great curiosity and [...] a great love for things." - Walter Isaacson

Daniel Pink mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast.

"I read [this book] right when I started Toms. There’s so many things that I took from [it] that allowed Toms to have this incredible growth." - Blake Mycoskie

Peter Attia mentioned reading this book on an interview for thereadinglists.com

Larry King mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast.

"A very good book about the YIMBY movement and its struggles." - Tyler Cowen

Ryan Shea recommended this book on his website.

"Gives one specific tactic for innovating quickly." - Andrew Ng

"Great." - Ben Horowitz

"At Asana, we've been lucky to benefit from [the author]'s advice firsthand; this book will enable him to help many more entrepreneurs answer the tough questions about their business." - Dustin Moskovitz

"You need to read [this book]." - Jason Calacanis

"The principles from [this book], I still apply today." - Kevin Systrom

One of the 7 books Mark Cuban credits his success to.

"[This author] talking about the internet is like Sid Vicious talking about punk. Analysts merely adopted it, but Ohanian was born in it, molded by it, and is the voice of it." - Derek Sivers

"Shows how anyone can use the power of the Internet to make the world a much cooler place to live." - Tony Hsieh

"An approachable, easy-to-understand blueprint on how anyone with a laptop can touch millions of people’s lives and make something people love." - Garry Tan

"A fascinating, surprising and beautifully written history of technology, economics, and culture, told through the thread of textiles." - Matt Ridley

Brianne Kimmel recommended this book on Twitter.

"SUPER SIMPLE, fun exercises!" - Adam Robinson

"[This] handbook for decision-making isn’t just evidence-based and practical—it’s fun too." - Adam Grant

"Simple, powerful and generous, it should be required reading." - Seth Godin

"The best user's guide to decision-making that you'll find." - Michael Mauboussin

"A deeply personal account of one man’s remarkable determination to live the best life he can." - Mike Rowe

"A provocative book for the moment. Highly recommended." - Ryan Holiday

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

"I learned a lot reading it." - Ben Horowitz

"A must read." - Bryan Johnson

Chris Dixon recommended this book on Twitter.

Dustin Moskovitz recommended this book during a Stanford lecture in 2014.

"[This author] has built multiple breakthrough companies, and [this book] shows how." - Elon Musk

"Recommend you consider buying a copy if you’re looking for a peak into the future." - Anthony Pompliano

"[The author] is a visionary, and one of the most original thinkers of our time." - Brian Armstrong

"The future convergence of networks and governments, from one of the most brilliant thinkers alive." - Naval Ravikant

"We've started new currencies. Now [this book] shows us how to start new cities and new countries." - Vitalik Buterin

Edgar Wright recommended this book on Twitter.

"People get really amped about a technology, then you try to actually do it, you find it’s actually hard, most people get demoralized and they quit." - Balaji Srinivasan

Part of "Jeff's Reading List."

Walter Isaacson said Steve Jobs was deeply influenced by this book.

Mark Cuban's answer to "what's a book you always recommend?"

"We often referenced [this book. A] thought-provoking [book] that validated our crusade." - Marc Benioff

"A great book on strategy." - Ben Horowitz

"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

Patrick Collison labeled this book "particularly great."

"I did find his historical analysis, which makes up the bulk of the book, utterly fascinating." - Bill Gates

"Concludes that innovation is the ultimate source of dramatic improvements in the human condition." - Satya Nadella

"I'm reading this book and I can already tell I am going to be so annoying about it afterwards. Sorry in advance." - Stewart Butterfield

"A lot of people have read Orwell's 1984, he actually wrote a book that's better. It's [this book]." - Ben Shapiro

"I was fairly soon immersed in [this book]." - Christopher Hitchens

Brad Delong recommended this book in his website.

"A gripping account of a dark wave in American history." - Fareed Zakaria

"The master of observational writing dissects the meeting point of Manhattan’s elites with the Black Panthers." - Douglas Murray

"A thrilling biography that provides great insight into how Communism works in practice." - Ben Horowitz

Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.

Lex Fridman mentioned this book on Instagram.

"Despite this being clearly above my reading comprehension, I'm really glad I still gave it a try." - PewDiePie

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.

"This, to me, is one of the true classics of all time." - George Raveling

Mark Cuban said he's reading this book in a Politico interview.

"It’s dense, it’s more than fifty years old, it’s an easy read and it’s urgently important." - Seth Godin

"Simultaneously a book on history, psychology, influence, and salesmanship." - Patrick O'Shaughnessy

"One of the most quotable books I've ever read. I think about it often." - Mark Manson

"I was very struck by the courtesy and grace of this famous polemic and by the way that [the author] combined firmness on his own part with an understanding of the position of others." - Christopher Hitchens

Ezra Klein recommended this book on Twitter.

Naval Ravikant tweeted about this book.

"Finally, science enters historical fields." - Nassim Taleb

"[One of] my favorite science books in 2018." - Michael Mauboussin

"The brief argument is: our true history is written in our genes." - Balaji Srinivasan

Charles Koch recommended this book on his website.

Keith Rabois recommended this book on Twitter.

"[The author's] thesis is that America is increasingly becoming a virtual society, focused on make-believe above all. I have to agree." - Balaji Srinivasan

"The saga of how one of the great founders of our time launched his company, grew it, got it back, and rejuvenated it." - Adam Grant

"Walks you through every step of his journey, from starting a company in his college dorm to pulling off the largest all-tech acquisition in history." - Bill Gates

"Tells you how to be successful and true to your values in this awe-inspiring narrative of what it takes." - Eric Schmidt

"Has insights for leaders at every stage, from entrepreneur to CEO." - Howard Schultz

"Provides a powerful portrait of his life—the early years, the obstacles and challenges, the successes and triumphs." - Jamie Dimon

"The quietest of the entrepreneurs who created the modern computer business finally tells his story.'" - Malcolm Gladwell