Entrepreneurs Reading List - December 2019

What You Do is Who You Are by Ben Horowitz

Ben Horowitz has long been fascinated by history, and particularly by how people behave differently than you’d expect. The time and circumstances in which they were raised often shapes them―yet a few leaders have managed to shape their times. In What You Do Is Who You Are, he turns his attention to a question crucial to every organization: how do you create and sustain the culture you want?

Along with "The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers", highly recommended.

The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution by Gregory Zuckerman

Jim Simons is the greatest moneymaker in modern financial history. No other investor--Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch, Ray Dalio, Steve Cohen, or George Soros--can touch his record. Since 1988, Renaissance's signature Medallion fund has generated average annual returns of 66 percent. The firm has earned profits of more than $100 billion; Simons is worth twenty-three billion dollars.

Trillion Dollar Coach - Bill Campbell by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle

Bill Campbell played an instrumental role in the growth of several prominent companies, such as Google, Apple, and Intuit, fostering deep relationships with Silicon Valley visionaries, including Steve Jobs, Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt. In addition, this business genius mentored dozens of other important leaders on both coasts, from entrepreneurs to venture capitalists to educators to football players, leaving behind a legacy of growing companies, successful people, respect, friendship, and love after his death in 2016.

Very highly recommended :)

Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It by Scott Kupor

A must-read for any entrepreneur who wants to raise venture capital.

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth

In this instant New York Times bestseller, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth shows anyone striving to succeed—be it parents, students, educators, athletes, or business people—that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a special blend of passion and persistence she calls “grit."

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport

Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It's a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep work will make you better at what you do and provide the sense of true fulfillment that comes from craftsmanship. In short, deep work is like a super power in our increasingly competitive twenty-first century economy. And yet, most people have lost the ability to go deep-spending their days instead in a frantic blur of e-mail and social media, not even realizing there's a better way.

Other great books:

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business - Charles Duhigg

Smarter Faster Better: The Transformative Power of Real Productivity - Charles Duhigg

Einstein: The Man, the Genius, and the Theory of Relativity by Walter Isaacson

Simply Brilliant - How Great Organizations Do Ordinary Things in Extraordinary Ways by William C. Taylor

Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist by Jason Mendelson and Brad Feld

High Growth Handbook by Elad Gil

Measure What Matters by John Doerr

Made In America by Sam Walton

Built to Last - Jim Collins

The Upstarts: Uber, Airbnb, and the Battle for the New Silicon Valley - Brad Stone

On China:

Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos (If you can read only one book on China, this is the one)

The China Challenge: Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power by Thomas Christensen

AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee

China's Disruptors: How Alibaba, Xiaomi, Tencent, and Other Companies are Changing the Rules of Business by Edward Tse

The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World by Peter Frankopan

Any other great books you would recommend? Please put them in the comments.