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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Bill Gurley

Best known for Benchmark's early investment in Uber in 2011; has been with the Silicon Valley venture firm since 1999.

Benchmark

Above the Crowd

123 articles · 17 books they recommend · 35 appearances

Recommends 17Writing 123Appearances 35Profiles 1Links 2
More 8
Born Standing UpBorn Standing Up
T4 Born Standing Up
Steve Martin · 2007
Open LibraryGoodreads

A comedian's eighteen years building a stand-up act, and why he quit it.

Also recommended by: James Altucher, Jason Calacanis and 2 others

Chronicles, Vol. 1
T4 Chronicles, Vol. 1
Bob Dylan
Goodreads
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NikeShoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
T1 Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
Phil Knight · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

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

Competitive StrategyCompetitive Strategy
T3 Competitive Strategy
Michael E. Porter · 1980
Open LibraryGoodreads

Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Jamie Dimon

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, Aaron Levie and 26 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

Monetizing InnovationMonetizing Innovation
T2 Monetizing Innovation
Madhavan Ramanujam, Georg Tacke · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

Set the price before you design the product, since most failures are pricing ones.

Also recommended by: Alfred Lin, Leo Polovets

StartupStartup
T4 Startup
Jerry Kaplan · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

A novel of a mindfulness-app founder, a tech-blog reporter and a stray text message.

Also recommended by: Audrey Gelman

Have Gun Will TravelHave Gun Will Travel
T4 Have Gun Will Travel
Ronin Ro · 1998
Open LibraryGoodreads
The High Cost of Free ParkingThe High Cost of Free Parking
T4 The High Cost of Free Parking
Donald Shoup · 2005
Open LibraryGoodreads

How free parking costs society, and why parking should be priced and deregulated.

The Diamond AgeThe Diamond Age
T4 The Diamond Age
Neal Stephenson · 1995
Open LibraryGoodreads

A novel of a nanotech future and a stolen copy of an interactive teaching book.

Also recommended by: Andrew Chen, Ev Williams, Naval Ravikant and 1 other

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon ValBad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
T1 Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
John Carreyrou · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Theranos reached a $9 billion value with blood tests that never worked.

Also recommended by: Alfred Lin, Bill Gates, Andrew Chen and 6 others

Catastrophic CareCatastrophic Care
T4 Catastrophic Care
David Goldhill · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads
Negotiating the ImpossibleNegotiating the Impossible
T4 Negotiating the Impossible
Deepak Malhotra · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Patrick O'Shaughnessy

ComplexityComplexity
T2 Complexity
M. Mitchell Waldrop · 1992
Open LibraryGoodreads

The founding of the Santa Fe Institute and the people who built complexity science.

Also recommended by: Jamie Dimon, Michael Mauboussin and 1 other

The Sixth ManThe Sixth Man
T4 The Sixth Man
Andre Iguodala · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Arianna Huffington, Jeff Jordan

BrotopiaBrotopia
T3 Brotopia
Emily Chang · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

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

Also recommended by: Aaron Levie, Aileen Lee, Arianna Huffington and 2 others