Fred Wilson

A novel in which industrialists vanish from an economy run by government directives.

A novel of a Brahmin's son in ancient India who seeks understanding his own way.

A novel of a hacker in a corporate-run America and its virtual world, the Metaverse.

Two Jewish cousins, a refugee from Nazi Prague and a Brooklyn writer, make comics.

Enlightened hospitality: put employees first, then guests, community and investors.

A Data General team races to design a 32-bit minicomputer in about a year.

A venture adviser on startups and the trap of the deferred life plan.

Machiavelli's handbook on political strategy remains disturbing because it separates effectiveness from morality — a distinction every strategic thinker eventually has to confront. His analysis of how new rulers consolidate power is still the sharpest treatment of legitimacy under conditions of uncertainty.

The original text on strategic positioning. Sun Tzu's core insight — that winning without fighting is the highest form of strategy — runs through everything that followed. Short enough to read in an afternoon, dense enough to argue about for a career.