
Swedish businessman who founded the music streaming service Spotify and ran it as CEO; Forbes put his net worth at $12.5 billion in August 2026.
12 books they recommend · 25 appearances
Seven sources of lasting advantage, each a benefit plus a barrier to rivals.
Also recommended by: Alex Lieberman, Brett Adcock, Guy Spier and 5 others
What eleven companies did to turn fifteen ordinary years into fifteen great ones.
Also recommended by: Brian Armstrong, Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason and 15 others
Diamond's central question — why did some civilizations come to dominate others over 10,000 years? — is precisely the kind of question that requires long-term thinking to even ask. The answer, rooted in geography and biology rather than culture or intelligence, is a model for how to reason about slow causes and fast effects.
Also recommended by: Charlie Munger, Christopher Bloomstran and 13 others
How shared fictions such as money, nations and gods let humans cooperate at scale.
Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Bill Gates, Mohnish Pabrai and 37 others
The 1970s and 80s record business and the promoters who controlled radio play.
Why aviation learns from every failure while fields like medicine hide theirs.
Also recommended by: Richard Branson
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Speeches making the case for a latticework of mental models from many fields.
Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Charlie Munger and 25 others
How to raise daughters of sound character who know they are loved.