Co-founded the blog publisher Weblogs, Inc. with Brian Alvey and sold it to AOL; invests in technology start-ups and co-hosts a podcast.
1 book of their own · 20 articles · 16 books they recommend
An angel investor's rules for picking, backing and helping early-stage startups.
Angel | An angel investor's rules for picking, backing and helping early-stage startups. | 2017 | T3 | – |
A comedian's eighteen years building a stand-up act, and why he quit it.
Also recommended by: Bill Gurley, James Altucher, Marc Andreessen and 1 other
Also recommended by: Terrance McArthur
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
Also recommended by: Ryan Holiday, Casey Neistat, Tucker Max
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
Building Creative Artists Agency into Hollywood's top agency, then failing at Disney.
Also recommended by: Ben Horowitz, Benedict Evans, Keith Rabois and 2 others
How leaders drive hypergrowth by raising standards, focus and urgency.
Also recommended by: Terrance McArthur
How Pixar kept a creative company working after success, and the habits it used.
Also recommended by: Jim Collins, Alexis Ohanian, Allen Gannett and 10 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
Build, measure, learn: test what customers want with small experiments.
Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Sheryl Sandberg, Andrew Chen and 16 others
An investor in Russia is expelled, his firms seized, and his lawyer Magnitsky dies.
Also recommended by: Christopher Bloomstran, Mohnish Pabrai and 5 others
The rise and fall of Stuey "The Kid" Ungar, called the greatest poker player.
Life in Nazi concentration camps, and logotherapy: finding meaning to survive.
Also recommended by: Frank Martin, Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason and 23 others
Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Packy McCormick
King's memoir of craft applies as directly to screenwriting as to fiction. His argument that story comes before plot — that you discover what a story is about by following characters rather than outlining — sits in productive tension with the structural approaches of McKee and Snyder.
Also recommended by: Nat Eliason, Paul Graham, Sam Parr
| A 'bulldog' who 'cuts through the bulls---': Here's how insiders describe early Robinhood investor Jason Calacanis Paywall | Business Insider | 2021 |
| Should the Middle Class Invest in Risky Tech Start-Ups? Paywall | The New York Times | 2017 |