19 must-read business books like The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley by Jimmy Soni

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The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley

By: Jimmy Soni

4.23

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2022 BY THE NEW YORKER National Bestseller * New York Times Editors’ Choice * …

If you liked the business plot in The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley by Jimmy Soni , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal

By: Nick Bilton

4.04

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

Twitter seems like a perfect start-up success story. In barely six years, a small group of young, a… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • biography
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
"When Taylor had called Mark to explain the situation, Facebook's CEO had given clear instructions to shut Twitter down the second it tried to launch."

-Nick Bilton, Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal

"Fred wasn't convinced, telling Charlie that such a service would never work and that other companies that had tried to make Twitter-like products had all failed."

-Nick Bilton, Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal

"What do you think your valuation is right now?" Mark asked as they both sat uncomfortably across from and below him, peering up at a boy who could, hypothetically speaking, quite happily buy them or …"

-Nick Bilton, Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal

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2. Am I Being Too Subtle?: Straight Talk From a Business Rebel

By: Sam Zell

3.50

Format: 0 pages,

The traits that make Sam Zell one of the world's most successful entrepreneurs also make him one of… read more

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  • biography
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership

3. Against the Odds: An Autobiography

By: James Dyson

3.32

Format: None pages, Paperback

The maverick inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner recounts how he succeeded against the odds to b… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • business
  • entrepreneurship

4. The Airbnb Story: How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions . . . and Created Plenty of Controversy

By: Leigh Gallagher

4.28

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

This is the remarkable behind-the-scenes story of the creation and growth of Airbnb, the online lod… read more

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5. In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

By: Steven Levy

0.00

Format: 126 pages, Hardcover

Written with full cooperation from top management, including cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page,… read more

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6. Elon Musk

By: Walter Isaacson

4.40

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • biography
  • technology
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
"[Musk] concluded that Trump as president was no different than he was as a candidate. The buffoonery was not just an act. "Trump might be one of the world’s best bullshitters ever," he says. "Like my…"

-Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk

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7. Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

By: Morgan Housel

4.19

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“Want to understand the changing world? Start with what stays the same. That’s the amazing conclusi… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
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8. Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making

By: Tony Fadell

4.33

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Written for anyone who wants to grow at work—from young grads navigating their first jobs to CEOs d… read more

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  • audiobook
  • biography
  • technology
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
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9. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

By: Chris Miller

4.44

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • technology
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"

-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

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10. Power And Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence

By: Ajay Agrawal

4.24

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Disruption resulting from the proliferation of AI is coming. The authors of the bestselling Predict… read more

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  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
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11. The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects

By: Andrew Chen

4.19

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

A venture capitalist draws on expertise developed at the premier venture capital firm, Andreessen H… read more

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  • audiobook
  • technology
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
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12. The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future

By: Sebastian Mallaby

4.43

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year  Named a Best Book of 2022 by The Ec… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • technology
"The first notable spinout was Kathy Xu, another woman who managed to flourish in China's venture industry. Rather than studying in the United States, Xu had experienced U.S. instruction at Nanjing Un…"

-Sebastian Mallaby, The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future

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13. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

By: Michael Lewis

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the story of FTX’s spectacular col… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • technology
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14. The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend

By: Rob Copeland

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. Ray Dalio… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
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15. The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost it All

By: Mary Childs

3.80

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the host of NPR’s Planet Money, the deeply-investigated story of how one visionary, dogged inv… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
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16. The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley

By: Jimmy Soni

4.23

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2022 BY THE NEW YORKER National Bestseller * New York Times Editors’ Choice * … read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • biography
  • technology
  • entrepreneurship
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • leadership
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17. Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber

By: Mike Isaac

4.14

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestseller A New York Times technology correspondent presen… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • biography
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • technology
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18. Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups

By: Ali Tamaseb

4.23

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Super Founders  uses a data-driven approach to understand what really differentiates billion-dollar… read more

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  • audiobook
  • biography
  • technology
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
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19. The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power

By: Max Chafkin

3.59

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

A New York Times Notable Book A biography of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, t… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • biography
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • technology
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20. When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach

By: Ashlee Vance

4.26

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

An Instant New York Times Bestseller A momentous look at the private companies building a revolu… read more

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  • history
  • biography
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  • economics
  • business
  • technology
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21. After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul

By: Tripp Mickle

4.10

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

From the Wall Street Journal's Tripp Mickle, the dramatic, untold story inside Apple after the pass… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership

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