23 Top business books like Zero to IPO: Over $1 Trillion Worth of Advice from the World's Most Successful Entrepreneurs by Frederic Kerrest

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Zero to IPO: Over $1 Trillion Worth of Advice from the World's Most Successful Entrepreneurs

By: Frederic Kerrest

4.10

Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition

From the cofounder of a $40 billion software company comes an invaluable guide packed with $1 trill…

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1. The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

By: Ben Horowitz

3.61

Format: 8 pages, Hardcover

A lot of people talk about how great it is to start a business, but only Ben Horowitz is brutally h… read more

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2. Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers

By: Geoffrey A. Moore , None

3.67

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Here is the bestselling guide that created a new game plan for marketing in high-tech industries. C… read more

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3. 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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  • 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

4. Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

By: Tony Hsieh

3.00

Format: 146 pages, Hardcover

You want to learn about the path that we took at Zappos to get to over $1 billion in gross merchand… read more

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5. Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul

By: Howard Schultz , Joanne Gordon

4.34

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

In 2008, Howard Schultz, the president and chairman of Starbucks, made the unprecedented decision t… read more

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6. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

By: Kara Swisher

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
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7. 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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  • management
  • leadership
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
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8. 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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  • nonfiction
  • 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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9. 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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  • business
  • leadership
  • entrepreneurship
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • management
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10. Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results

By: Shane Parrish

4.21

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFew things will change your trajectory in life or business as m… read more

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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • leadership
"Our desire to feel right overpowers our desire to be right."

-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results

"The social rewards for going with the crowd are felt long before the benefits of going against it are gained."

-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results

"Most people go through life assuming that we’re right about everything all the time and that people who don’t see things our way are wrong. We mistake how we want the world to be with how it actually…"

-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results

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11. 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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  • entrepreneurship
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • 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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12. The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

By: Mustafa Suleyman

3.86

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

A warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
Cover of The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you by Rob  Fitzpatrick

13. The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you

By: Rob Fitzpatrick

4.37

Format: 138 pages, Kindle Edition

The Mom Test is a quick, practical guide that will save you time, money, and heartbreak. They say y… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
  • entrepreneurship
  • management
"The world’s most deadly fluff is: “I would definitely buy that."

-Rob Fitzpatrick, The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you

"Here’s the thing: only the market can tell if your idea is good. Everything else is just opinion."

-Rob Fitzpatrick, The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you

"Compliments are the fool’s gold of customer learning: shiny, distracting, and entirely worthless."

-Rob Fitzpatrick, The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you

"Trying to learn from customer conversations is like excavating a delicate archaeological site. The truth is down there somewhere, but it’s fragile."

-Rob Fitzpatrick, The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you

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14. Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity

By: Frank Slootman

4.07

Format: 208 pages, ebook

Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly BestsellerThe secret to leading growth is you… read more

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  • management
  • leadership
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
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15. Masters of Scale: Surprising Truths from the World's Most Successful Entrepreneurs

By: Reid Hoffman

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

What can you learn from a Silicon Valley legend and a pantheon of iconic leaders? The key to scalin… read more

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  • management
  • leadership
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
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16. Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well

By: Amy C. Edmondson

3.95

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A revolutionary guide that will transform your relationship with failure, from the pioneering resea… read more

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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • leadership
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17. The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building

By: Matt Mochary

4.35

Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition

Matt Mochary coaches the CEOs of many of the fastest-scaling technology companies in Silicon Valley… read more

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  • management
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
Cover of The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley by Jimmy Soni

18. 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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  • technology
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
Cover of Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building by Claire Hughes Johnson

19. Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building

By: Claire Hughes Johnson

4.29

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

From a Stripe and Google executive, a practical guide to company building and scaling the most impo… read more

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  • management
  • leadership
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  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
Cover of Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick

20. 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 Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell by Eric Schmidt

21. Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell

By: Eric Schmidt

3.99

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The team behind How Google Works returns with management lessons from legendary coach and business … read more

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  • management
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Cover of The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More with Less by Sahil Lavingia

22. The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More with Less

By: Sahil Lavingia

4.22

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

“Pay attention.”—Jason Fried A revolutionary roadmap for building startups that go the distance   … read more

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  • entrepreneurship
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
Cover of End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin

23. End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration

By: Peter Turchin

4.04

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

“Peter Turchin brings science to history. Some like it and some prefer their history plain. But eve… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success by Tom Eisenmann

24. Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success

By: Tom Eisenmann

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

If you want your startup to succeed, you need to understand why startups fail. “Whether you’re a f… read more

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  • leadership
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
Cover of The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI by Ray Kurzweil

25. The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI

By: Ray Kurzweil

3.93

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explor… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • technology
Cover of Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution by Uri Levine

26. Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution

By: Uri Levine

4.35

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Unicorns—companies that reach a valuation of more than $1 billion—are rare. Uri Levine has built tw… read more

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  • technology
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
"Make your mistakes fast"

-Uri Levine, Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution

"Product market fit (PMF) or die"

-Uri Levine, Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution

"Fall in love with the problem, not the solution"

-Uri Levine, Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution

"VCs are slow, until they think they're going to lose the deal"

-Uri Levine, Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution

Cover of Zero to IPO: Over $1 Trillion Worth of Advice from the World's Most Successful Entrepreneurs by Frederic Kerrest

27. Zero to IPO: Over $1 Trillion Worth of Advice from the World's Most Successful Entrepreneurs

By: Frederic Kerrest

4.10

Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition

From the cofounder of a $40 billion software company comes an invaluable guide packed with $1 trill… read more

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  • business
  • leadership
  • entrepreneurship
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • technology
Cover of Never Enough: From Barista to Billionaire by Andrew  Wilkinson

28. Never Enough: From Barista to Billionaire

By: Andrew Wilkinson

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Andrew Wilkinson, touted as the Warren Buffett of tech, pulls back the curtain on the lives of the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • entrepreneurship
  • finance
  • business
Cover of Pattern Breakers: Why Some Start-Ups Change the Future by Mike Maples Jr

29. Pattern Breakers: Why Some Start-Ups Change the Future

By: Mike Maples Jr

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

A radical set of new ideas for how entrepreneurs, investors, and corporate leaders can use the patt… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
  • entrepreneurship
Cover of Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari

30. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

By: Yuval Noah Harari

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more

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26 must-read nonfiction books like Zero to IPO: Over $1 Trillion Worth of Advice from the World's Most Successful Entrepreneurs by Frederic Kerrest

Transform Your Habits

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

Charles T. Munger , None

4.42

Transform Your Habits

Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Kara Swisher

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making

Tony Fadell

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Chris Miller

4.44

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Nuclear War: A Scenario

Annie Jacobsen

4.47

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The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

Mustafa Suleyman

3.86

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Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)

Salman Khan

3.74

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Bill Maher

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