Books Recommended by Travis Kalanick
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
Source: "About a kid who is trained by the military to play video games [...] But he realizes at the end that the video games he was playing were an actual war." - Travis Kalanick
Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow
Source: "[Travis Kalanick changed his Twitter] avatar to Alexander Hamilton after having read [this book]." - Adam Lashinsky
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
Source: Travis Kalanick mentioned this book in a Washington Post interview.
The Art Of War
Sun Tzu
Source: "It became [Travis Kalanick's bible]." - Mike Isaac
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
Source: "It’s one of my favorite books." - Travis Kalanick
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