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The Innovators and Icons of the Tech Revolution

Zero To One

Zero To One

Peter Thiel

Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future. Currency, 2014.

19 mins read

4 reads

The Radium Girls

The Radium Girls

Kate Moore

The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women. Sourcebooks, 2017.

21 mins read

1 reads

Start with Why

Start with Why

Simon Sinek

How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action. Portfolio/Penguin, 2009.

16 mins read

2 reads

Uncommon Grounds

Uncommon Grounds

Mark Pendergrast

The History of Coffee and How It Transformed the World. Basic Books, 2019.

21 mins read

3 reads

The Games

The Games

David Goldblatt

A Global History of the Olympics. W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.

21 mins read

2 reads

Blood, Sweat, and Pixels

Blood, Sweat, and Pixels

Jason Schreier

The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made. Harper, 2017.

19 mins read

1 reads

The Chaos Machine

The Chaos Machine

Max Fisher

The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World. Little, Brown and Company, 2022.

21 mins read

0 reads

Measure What Matters

Measure What Matters

John Doerr

How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs. Portfolio, 2018.

19 mins read

4 reads

Kingdom of Lies

Kingdom of Lies

Kate Fazzini

Unnerving Adventures in the World of Cybercrime. St. Martin’s Press, 2019.

16 mins read

0 reads

Why Nations Fail

Why Nations Fail

Daron Acemoglu

The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty. Currency, 2012.

17 mins read

2 reads

Power Play

Power Play

Tim Higgins

Tesla, Musk, and the Bet of the Century. Anchor Books, 2021.

21 mins read

2 reads

Leaders Eat Last

Leaders Eat Last

Simon Sinek

Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t. Portfolio, 2017.

20 mins read

2 reads

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