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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Brian Chesky

Industries

Industrial designer who co-founded Airbnb in 2008; Forbes ranked him 290th in the world with $9.2 billion, mostly his 10% stake in the company.

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Brian Chesky on Medium

10 articles · 8 books they recommend · 13 appearances

Recommends 8Writing 10Appearances 13Profiles 2Links 1
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Steve JobsSteve Jobs
T2 Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Steve Jobs's life and Apple's products, from forty interviews with him and many more.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Patrick Collison and 16 others

The Ride of a LifetimeThe Ride of a Lifetime
T1 The Ride of a Lifetime
Robert Iger · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

Running Disney and buying Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm and Fox to add creative talent.

Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Alexis Ohanian, Ali Abdaal and 7 others

Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American ImaWalt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination
T2 Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination
Neal Gabler · 2006
Open LibraryGoodreads

Walt Disney's life from Missouri to Mickey Mouse, the 1941 strike and Disneyland.

Also recommended by: Marc Andreessen

High Output ManagementHigh Output Management
T1 High Output Management
Andrew S. Grove · 1983
Open LibraryGoodreads

Management as production: a manager's output is the output of the team they lead.

Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Tim Ferriss, Andrew Chen and 23 others

The Airbnb StoryThe Airbnb Story
T2 The Airbnb Story
Leigh Gallaher · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

Airbnb from three air mattresses in 2007 to a global lodging business.

Also recommended by: Reid Hoffman, Tony Hsieh

Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to BuiBlitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
T2 Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
Reid Hoffman, Chris Yeh · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

When and how to put speed before efficiency to capture a market before rivals.

Also recommended by: Anthony Pompliano, Bill Gates, Biz Stone and 6 others

Googled: The End of the World As We Know ItGoogled: The End of the World As We Know It
T2 Googled: The End of the World As We Know It
Ken Auletta · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Google disrupted newspapers, books, television and advertising.

Also recommended by: Keith Rabois

The Art of TravelThe Art of Travel
T4 The Art of Travel
Alain de Botton · 2002
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson