Ron Conway Recommended Books

Tom Bilyeu recommended this book on his website.

"It might be most useful to someone who is just getting into designing interactive applications." - Fred Wilson

"Teaches you how to develop empathy for users you want to serve by talking to them." - Andrew Ng

"Explains how to do the customer development interviews in a way that will get you the most accurate and actionable feedback." - Fred Wilson

"Serves as an extraordinary resource for leaders and managers in every sector of industry." - Howard Schultz

"An indispensable handbook for entrepreneurs at every stage of their journey." - Marc Benioff

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

"The best book on management ever written." - Marc Andreessen

"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.

"[Looks] at Bell Labs, which was one of the most innovative labs in history." - Mark Zuckerberg

"Sets the context for the hardware inventions that directly led to Silicon Valley." - Patrick Collison

"Strongly recommended." - David Friedberg

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

"Captivating dive into human decision making, marred by inclusion of several/many? psychology studies that fail to replicate. Will stand as a cautionary tale?" - Marc Andreessen

"For B2B, I recommend [this book]." - Andrew Ng

"It’s [about] how do technology products make their way from early adopters to the mainstream." - Drew Houston

"Helps us understand that it is a myth — an incorrect myth, a false myth — to believe that we can start with an idea for a few people and ride it from early adopter to early majority to late majority to laggard." - Seth Godin

"[One of] four good books that I would highly recommend reading if you're gonna build a B2B software company." - Aaron Levie

On the "books read" section of Ev Williams' GoodReads profile.

"Entrepreneurs should read this book when they are cranking out their 'conservative' sales projections." - Guy Kawasaki

"About creativity through the lens of an art student." - Jack Dorsey

"Too much (good) info but thankfully there's a summary in the Appendix." - Ryan Hoover

"He took a team that was at the very very bottom, and he brought them to the top." - Jack Dorsey

Keith Rabois recommended this book on a Medium blog post.

One of Sam Altman's answers to "What are some of the best books you recommend for a young startup founder?"

"Even if you’ve never watched a down of football, you’ll get something out of this book." - Ryan Holiday

"Keep your lockers / desks clean and it'll reflect in other parts of your life." - Noah Kagan

"Among the best books! A way of living, working & commitment to excellence." - Vinod Khosla

"[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

"Probably the single most valuable book a startup founder could read." - Paul Graham

"Interviews with technology founders from one of the best investors of all time." - Ryan Holiday

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

On the "books read" section of Ev Williams' GoodReads profile.

"A classic in the special operations community." - Chris Fussell