18 best-selling business books like Dot.con: How America Lost Its Mind and Money in the Internet Era by John Cassidy

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Dot.con: How America Lost Its Mind and Money in the Internet Era

By: John Cassidy

3.89

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

The Internet stock bubble wasn't just about goggle-eyed day traderstrying to get rich on the Nasdaq…

If you liked the business plot in Dot.con: How America Lost Its Mind and Money in the Internet Era by John Cassidy , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

By: Yuval Noah Harari

4.35

Format: 26 pages,

Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Timesbestseller and international ph… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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2. Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire

By: James Wallace , None

2.50

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

The true story behind the rise of a tyrannical genius, how he transformed an industry, and why ever… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • business
  • technology
Cover of The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story by Michael   Lewis

3. The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story

By: Michael Lewis

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"A superb book...[Lewis] makes Silicon Valley as thrilling and intelligible as he made Wall Street … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • technology
Cover of Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin

4. Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves

By: Andrew Ross Sorkin

4.54

Format: None pages,

Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the g… read more

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  • history
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
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5. Only the Paranoid Survive

By: Andrew S. Grove

3.91

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

Under Andy Grove's leadership, Intel has become the world's largest chip maker and one of the most … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology

6. All the Devils are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis

By: Bethany McLean , Joe Nocera

3.11

Format: 216 pages,

"Hell is empty, and all the devils are here." -Shakespeare, The Tempest As soon as the financial cr… read more

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7. A History of the United States in Five Crashes: Stock Market Meltdowns That Defined a Nation

By: Scott Nations

3.88

Format: None pages, ebook

In this absorbing, smart, and accessible blend of economic and cultural history, Scott Nations, a l… read more

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8. Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

By: Charles T. Munger , None

4.42

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

EXPANDED THIRD EDITION includes Charlie's 2007 USC Law School Commencement address. Edited by Peter… read more

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  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • finance
  • business
"What are the secret of success? -one word answer :"rational"

-Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

"The best armour of old age is a well spent life preceding it."

-Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

"The best armour of old age is a well spent life perfecting it."

-Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

"How to find a good spouse? -the best single way is to deserve a good spouse."

-Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

9. Class: A Guide Through the American Status System

By: Paul Fussell

3.99

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

The bestselling, comprehensive, and carefully researched guide to the ins-and-outs of the American … read more

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10. Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There

By: David Brooks

3.64

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Do you believe that spending $15,000 on a media center is vulgar, but that spending $15,000 on a sl… read more

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11. Cinema Speculation

By: Quentin Tarantino

4.06

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

Cover of Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes by Morgan Housel

12. 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
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
Cover of Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud by Ben McKenzie

13. Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud

By: Ben McKenzie

None

Format: None pages, None

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES 2023 BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR… read more

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14. Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts

By: Annie Duke

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In Super Bowl XLIX, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll made one of the most controversial calls in footbal… read more

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  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • finance
  • business
Cover of Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris   Miller

15. 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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  • 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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16. These Truths: A History of the United States

By: Jill Lepore

4.40

Format: 960 pages, Paperback

Widely hailed for its “sweeping, sobering account of the American past” (New York Times Book Review… read more

Similar categories in Jill Lepore's These Truths: A History of the United States book and John Cassidy's Dot.con: How America Lost Its Mind and Money in the Internet Era

  • nonfiction
  • american
  • history
"Most of what once existed is gone... Nature takes one toll, malice another... most of what historians study survives because it was purposely kept... (it) is called the historical record, & it is mad…"

-Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States

"Washington's Farewell Address consists of a series of warnings about the danger of disunion. The North and the South, the East and the West, ought not to consider their interests separate or competin…"

-Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States

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17. Measure What Matters

By: John Doerr

3.99

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

The revolutionary movement behind the explosive growth of Intel, Google, Amazon and Uber. With a f… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
  • buisness
"For anyone striving for high performance in the workplace, goals are very necessary things."

-John Doerr, Measure What Matters

"Acute focus, open sharing, exacting measurement, a license to shoot for the moon—these are the hallmarks of modern goal science."

-John Doerr, Measure What Matters

"If the heart doesn't find a perfect rhyme with the head, then your passion means nothing. The OKR framework cultivates the madness, the chemistry contained inside. It gives us an environment for risk…"

-John Doerr, Measure What Matters

Cover of The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees by Ben Mezrich

18. The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees

By: Ben Mezrich

3.61

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Named a Best Book of the Year by New York Post! From one of our most innovative and celebrated aut… read more

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  • history
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • technology
"Because so many people were betting against GameStop —and brick-and-mortar retail in general — the overall short position was enormous, almost comically so. At certain points over the past six months…"

-Ben Mezrich, The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees

"And as a long-short fund, he'd also been obligated to take short positions — betting against companies — which was a tactic that, to most experts in finance, was uncontroversial. The thinking went, w…"

-Ben Mezrich, The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees

"Which meant, if somehow GameStop did start to go up, the people who had shorted the company would begin to feel pressure to buy; the more the stock went up, the heavier that pressure became. As the s…"

-Ben Mezrich, The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees

"Keith was sophisticated enough to understand the inherent risk of options; buying options wasn't as dangerous as short selling, because your potential for loss was capped, because you could always le…"

-Ben Mezrich, The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees

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19. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

By: Eric Jorgenson

4.44

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

Getting rich is not just about luck; Happiness is not just a trait we are born with. These aspirati… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • finance
  • business
"No one in the world is going to beat you at being you."

-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

"Intentions don’t matter. Actions do. That’s why being ethical is hard."

-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

"An old boss once warned: “You’ll never be rich since you’re obviously smart, and someone will always offer you a job that’s just good enough."

-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

"I don’t buy the everlasting afterlife answers because it’s insane to me, with absolutely no evidence, to believe because of how you live seventy years here on this planet, you’re going to spend etern…"

-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

Cover of Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux

20. Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

By: Zeke Faux

4.26

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom… read more

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  • history
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • technology
Cover of Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon by Michael   Lewis

21. 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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  • history
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • technology
Cover of The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Jonathan Haidt

22. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A timely investigation into the campus assault on free speech and what it means for students, educa… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Virtues become vices when they are carried to an extreme."

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

"Avoiding triggers is a symptom of PTSD, not a treatment for it."

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

"Practice the virtue of "intellectual humility." Intellectual humility is the recognition that our reasoning is so flawed, so prone to bias, that we can rarely be certain that we are right."

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

"The college admissions process nowadays makes it harder for high school students to enjoy school and pursue intrinsic fulfillment. The process "warps the values of students drawn into a competitive f…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

Cover of The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend by Rob Copeland

23. 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
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • buisness
  • economics
  • business
Cover of Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America by Maggie Haberman

24. Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

By: Maggie Haberman

4.09

Format: 597 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times reporter who has defined Donald J. Trump's presidenc… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Trump is to business what professional wrestling is to sports: part of it, certainly, but also a cartoonish parody of it."

-Maggie Haberman, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

"[White House Chief of Staff and Four-Star General John] Kelly shared with [Mick} Mulvaney {who was appointed when Kelly resigned] his view that Trump was the most flawed person he had ever met."

-Maggie Haberman, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

Cover of This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for American Democracy by Jonathan  Martin

25. This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for American Democracy

By: Jonathan Martin

4.00

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The shocking, definitive account of the 2020 election and the first year of the Biden presidency by… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson by Jeff Pearlman

26. The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson

By: Jeff Pearlman

4.20

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

By the New York Times bestselling author of Showtime—the source for HBO’s Winning Time—the definiti… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick

27. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

By: Ethan Mollick

4.13

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
Cover of The Infinite Machine: How an Army of Crypto-hackers Is Building the Next Internet with Ethereum by Camila Russo

28. The Infinite Machine: How an Army of Crypto-hackers Is Building the Next Internet with Ethereum

By: Camila Russo

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Written with the verve of such works as The Big Short, The History of the Future, and The Spider Ne… read more

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  • history
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • technology
Cover of Facebook: The Inside Story by Steven Levy

29. Facebook: The Inside Story

By: Steven Levy

4.07

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

He has had unprecedented access to Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg for three years. And now ren… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • business
  • technology
Cover of Dot.con: How America Lost Its Mind and Money in the Internet Era by John Cassidy

30. Dot.con: How America Lost Its Mind and Money in the Internet Era

By: John Cassidy

3.89

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

The Internet stock bubble wasn't just about goggle-eyed day traderstrying to get rich on the Nasdaq… read more

Similar categories in John Cassidy's Dot.con: How America Lost Its Mind and Money in the Internet Era book and John Cassidy's Dot.con: How America Lost Its Mind and Money in the Internet Era

  • internet
  • american
  • history
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • buisness
  • economics
  • business
  • technology

18 best-selling history books like Dot.con: How America Lost Its Mind and Money in the Internet Era by John Cassidy

Transform Your Habits

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

Yuval Noah Harari

4.35

Transform Your Habits

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

James Wallace , None

2.50

Transform Your Habits

The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story

Michael Lewis

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves

Andrew Ross Sorkin

4.54

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Transform Your Habits

Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

Morgan Housel

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

Zeke Faux

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

Michael Lewis

3.80

Transform Your Habits

The Trading Game: A Confession

Gary Stevenson

4.26

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