Co-founded Reddit with Steve Huffman and Aaron Swartz and was its executive chairman; co-founded the venture firm Initialized Capital and was a partner at Y Combinator.
1 book of their own · 10 articles · 31 books they recommend
Recommended by: Eric Jorgenson, Garry Tan, Justin Kan
Without Their Permission | – | 2013 | Eric Jorgenson, Garry Tan, Justin Kan |
A thriller about a computer program that runs on after its creator's death.
Also recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan, Elon Musk and 1 other
Also recommended by: Joel Connolly, Mario Gabriele and 1 other
A novel of a hacker in a corporate-run America and its virtual world, the Metaverse.
Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Naval Ravikant, Austen Allred and 11 others
A picture book about love and acceptance.
Also recommended by: Mark Zuckerberg
How a running-shoe importer became Nike, surviving one cash crisis after another.
Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Bill Gates, Mohnish Pabrai and 24 others
Running Disney and buying Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm and Fox to add creative talent.
Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Ali Abdaal, Anu Hariharan and 7 others
The story of how Twitter was founded and of the founders who built it.
Also recommended by: Casey Neistat, Ron Conway, Terrance McArthur
How John Carmack and John Romero made Doom and Quake and changed video games.
Also recommended by: Patrick Collison
How Uber grew on subsidies and aggression until its founder was pushed out in 2017.
Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Anna Cheng, Changpeng Zhao and 2 others
Also recommended by: Ryan Holiday, Andrew Chen, Brad Feld and 5 others
Operating manual for scaling a company from fifty to thousands
Also recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan, Matt Mullenweg and 9 others
Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Alex Lieberman, Ali Abdaal and 6 others
Distraction comes from escaping discomfort, not technology, and how to manage it.
Also recommended by: Nir Eyal, Allen Gannett, Ana Fabrega and 3 others
Career capital before passion; building rare and valuable skills
Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Jordan Hughes, Kevin Kelly and 1 other
Extraordinary results come from narrowing focus to the one thing that matters most.
Also recommended by: David Cancel, Austen Allred and 3 others
Also recommended by: Ran Segall, Vlad Magdalin, Zoë Foster Blake
How the global elite's efforts to change the world keep the status quo in place.
Also recommended by: Tristan Harris, Vinod Khosla
How Pixar kept a creative company working after success, and the habits it used.
Also recommended by: Jim Collins, Allen Gannett, Daniel Burka and 10 others
A method for hiring the right people, built on interviews with wealthy executives.
Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Noah Kagan
How Ross Ulbricht built Silk Road, the online drug market, until the FBI caught him.
Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Casey Neistat, Chris Dixon and 2 others
A four-step model for habit-forming products: trigger, action, reward, investment.
Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Andrew Chen, David Cancel and 5 others
The Good Judgment Project; the practices that measurably improve forecasts.
Also recommended by: Patrick Collison and 8 others
Cities as labour markets, and planning that works with land markets.
Also recommended by: Emmett Shear, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
How Jho Low diverted billions from Malaysia's 1MDB fund into parties and politics.
Also recommended by: Alfred Lin, Anthony Pompliano, Bill Gates and 3 others
How lack of sleep damages nearly every system in the body, and what sleep does.
Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Abi Tyas Tunggal, Jason Fried and 5 others
An operating manual for founders scaling from a few people to a few hundred.
Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Ali Abdaal and 4 others
Techniques for handling people, being liked and winning others to your view.
Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Alex and Books and 12 others
Six principles of compliance, from reciprocity to scarcity, and how sellers use them.
Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Charlie Munger and 28 others
How the advertising business is being upended, told from its most powerful rooms.
Also recommended by: Michael Bloomberg
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| Atoms Masks for NYC Public Housing Residents | Medium | 2020-04-16 |
| Incubating a Modern Dog Wellness Brand — Jinx | Medium | 2020-02-12 |
| Katelin Holloway Joins Initialized to Level Up Founders on People and Culture | Medium | 2020-02-11 |
| Streetwear Rental Startup Seasons Unlocks a More Circular Fashion Economy | Medium | 2020-01-20 |
| Launching Business Dad | Medium | 2020-01-14 |
| Where Players Own Their Loot: Why Initialized Invested in Skyweaver | Medium | 2019-07-24 |
| Work-life. Balance. | Medium | 2019-06-16 |
| How to Predict the Future | Medium | 2019-06-13 |
| Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian: An online platform free of hate is 'really good for business' Paywall | The Washington Post Magazine | 2021 |
| Reddit co-founder on paternity leave and male success: 'These things are not mutually exclusive' | The Guardian | 2020 |