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Against the Odds: An Autobiography

James Dyson

on Founders , My First Million , David Senra , Invest Like the Best , The Knowledge Project , The Startup Ideas Podcast • 16 mentions

fresh renowned evergreen breakout

Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire

James Wallace, Jim Erickson

on Founders , Lex Fridman Podcast , My First Million , The Startup Ideas Podcast , The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) • 7 mentions

fresh renowned resurging

Damn Right!: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger

Janet Lowe

on Founders • 2 mentions

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Rick Rubin: In the Studio

Jake Brown

on Founders • 1 mention

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Mythical Man-Month, The: Essays on Software Engineering

Frederick Brooks Jr.

on a16z Show , Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast , Software Engineering Daily , The Real Python Podcast • 4 mentions

fresh resurging

The Return on Kindness: How Kind Leadership Wins Talent, Earns Loyalty, And Builds Successful Companies

Bonnie Hayden Cheng

on Think Fast Talk Smart: Communication Techniques • 1 mention

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Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl

on Lex Fridman Podcast , How to Be Awesome at Your Job , The Game , The Next Big Idea Daily , Lenny's Podcast , Masters in Business , My First Million , The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) , Coaching for Leaders , HBR On Leadership , ReThinking , TED Talks Daily , The Diary Of A CEO , The Knowledge Project , Worklife • 28 mentions

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The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King

Rich Cohen

on Founders , Lenny's Podcast • 5 mentions

fresh resurging

The Lessons of History

Will Durant, Ariel Durant

on Founders , Lenny's Podcast , The Diary Of A CEO • 3 mentions

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The Ancient City: A Study on the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome (Classic Reprint)

Fustel de Coulanges

on Lenny's Podcast , Lex Fridman Podcast • 2 mentions

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Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base

Annie Jacobsen

on Lenny's Podcast • 1 mention

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Life, the Universe and Everything

Douglas Adams

on Lenny's Podcast • 1 mention

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The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China

Jonathan Kaufman

on Lenny's Podcast • 1 mention

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers-Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship

Ben Horowitz

on a16z Show , The $100 MBA Show , Lenny's Podcast , The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) , My First Million , The SaaS Podcast: Build, Launch & Scale Your SaaS , How to Be Awesome at Your Job , Masters of Scale , Startups For the Rest of Us , Uncapped with Jack Altman • 34 mentions

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The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka

on Lex Fridman Podcast , Morning Brew Daily , Ologies with Alie Ward • 3 mentions

fresh resurging

The Running Ground: A Father, a Son, and the Simplest of Sports

Nicholas Thompson

on The Next Big Idea , Habits and Hustle , Masters of Scale , The Next Big Idea Daily • 5 mentions

fresh evergreen

Intentional: How to Finish What You Start

Chris Bailey

on How to Be Awesome at Your Job , The Next Big Idea Daily • 2 mentions

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Start More Than You Can Finish: A Creative Permission Slip to Unleash Your Best Ideas

Becky Blades

on The Next Big Idea Daily • 1 mention

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