The entrepreneurial road is a winding, rocky one. I spend so much time in my own head battling things out, trying to understand the right strategies to follow, how to engage with and understand the people I work with and make a tiny bit of sense of it all. These are books I’ve read over the last three years that have really helped guide me on the journey. Credit must be given to the book club I’m part of with some close friends where we meet and discuss the themes raised in a particular book. They have recommended many of these.
I’m sure I’m only scratching the surface, so if you have any recommendations, please let me know.
On Running a Startup
The Founder’s Dilemmas – Noam Wasserman
The Hard Thing About Hard Things – Ben Horowitz
Brand Sense – Martin Lindstom
Barking up the Wrong Tree – Eric Barker (snap!)
Philosophy & Psychology
Thinking Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
The Varieties of Scientific Experience – Carl Sagan
Letters from a Stoic – Seneca
The Dragons of Eden – Carl Sagan
Flow – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Mindset – Carol Dweck
Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor E Frankel
Biographies
The Innovators – Walter Isaacson
Shoe Dog – Phil Knight
Steve Jobs – Walter Isaacson
Elon Musk – Ashlee Vance
Open: An Autobiography – Andre Agassi
Business and Technology
Zero to One – Peter Thiel
Principles: Life and Work – Ray Dalio
Rise of the Robots – Martin Ford
Modern Monopolies – Alex Moazed
Human History
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari
The Lessons of History – Will and Ariel Durant
Memoirs of a Primate – Robert Sapolsky