Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Aaron Levie

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American entrepreneur, born in 1985, who has led the enterprise cloud company Box since co-founding it.

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5 articles · 14 books they recommend

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Behind the CloudBehind the Cloud
T2 Behind the Cloud
Marc Benioff · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Salesforce was built, set out as 111 plays on marketing, sales and growth.

Also recommended by: David Cancel, David Sacks, Eric Schmidt and 2 others

Father, Son & Co.Father, Son & Co.
T2 Father, Son & Co.
Thomas Watson · 1990
Open LibraryGoodreads

IBM's founding under the father, its move into computers and the son's career.

Hard DriveHard Drive
T2 Hard Drive
James Wallace · 1992
Open LibraryGoodreads

A critical history of Bill Gates and the early Microsoft, from Lakeside School on.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Patrick Collison and 2 others

High Growth HandbookHigh Growth Handbook
T3 High Growth Handbook
Elad Gil · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Operating manual for scaling a company from fifty to thousands

Also recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan, Matt Mullenweg and 9 others

How to Castrate a BullHow to Castrate a Bull
T4 How to Castrate a Bull
Dave Hitz · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads
The Startup WayThe Startup Way
T4 The Startup Way
Eric Ries · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Paul Graham

SoftwarSoftwar
T3 Softwar
Matthew Symonds · 2003
Open LibraryGoodreads

Authorised; Ellison's rebuttals run in footnotes throughout.

Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson

Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?
T1 Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?
Louis V. Gerstner Jr. · 2002
Open LibraryGoodreads

How IBM was kept whole in 1993 and turned from hardware toward services.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Blue Ocean StrategyBlue Ocean Strategy
T4 Blue Ocean Strategy
W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne · 2005
Open LibraryGoodreads

How to create new market space instead of fighting rivals over existing demand.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason and 5 others

The Innovator's DilemmaThe Innovator's Dilemma
T1 The Innovator's Dilemma
Clayton M. Christensen · 1997
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why well-run firms lose to cheaper, worse products that enter at the market's bottom.

Also recommended by: Jim Collins, Mohnish Pabrai, Andrew Chen and 26 others

Positioning: The Battle for Your MindPositioning: The Battle for Your Mind
T2 Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind
Al Ries, Jack Trout · 1981
Open LibraryGoodreads

Marketing happens in the buyer's mind: find an open position there and own it.

Also recommended by: Patrick Collison, David Cancel, Ev Williams and 3 others

Crossing the ChasmCrossing the Chasm
T2 Crossing the Chasm
Geoffrey A. Moore · 1991
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why tech products stall between early adopters and the mainstream, and how to cross.

Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Mohnish Pabrai and 12 others

BrotopiaBrotopia
T3 Brotopia
Emily Chang · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Reporting on the culture that produced Uber's 2017 crisis.

Also recommended by: Aileen Lee, Arianna Huffington, Bill Gurley and 2 others

Dealing with DarwinDealing with Darwin
T2 Dealing with Darwin
Geoffrey Moore
Goodreads

How mature companies keep innovating while defending their core businesses.