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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Max Levchin

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Co-founded PayPal as Confinity in 1998 and ran its technology until eBay bought it in 2002, building its anti-fraud systems; now runs the buy-now-pay-later company Affirm.

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16 books they recommend · 43 appearances

Recommends 16Appearances 43Profiles 1
More 2
Good to GreatGood to Great
T2 Good to Great
Jim Collins · 2001
Open LibraryGoodreads

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

The Culture CodeThe Culture Code
T3 The Culture Code
Daniel Coyle · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Coyle examines high-performing groups — SEAL teams, Pixar, the San Antonio Spurs — to identify the three skills that build strong cultures: building safety, sharing vulnerability, and establishing purpose. The research is descriptive rather than prescriptive, which makes it more credible than most culture books.

Also recommended by: Changpeng Zhao, David Cancel, George Hatzis and 1 other

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

High Growth HandbookHigh Growth Handbook
T3 High Growth Handbook
Elad Gil · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Operating manual for scaling a company from fifty to thousands

Also recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan, Matt Mullenweg and 9 others

The Hard Thing About Hard ThingsThe Hard Thing About Hard Things
T3 The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

Subtitled 'Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers'

Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Balaji S. Srinivasan and 33 others

Zero to OneZero to One
T1 Zero to One
Peter Thiel · 2001
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why startups should build something new and own a small market before growing.

Also recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan, Eric Weinstein and 35 others

The Ascent of MoneyThe Ascent of Money
T2 The Ascent of Money
Niall Ferguson · 2008
Open LibraryGoodreads

The history of finance by instrument: credit, bonds, stocks, insurance and property.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Raoul Pal, Ryan Peterson and 1 other

Too Big to FailToo Big to Fail
T1 Too Big to Fail
Andrew Ross Sorkin · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

Inside the meetings of bankers and regulators during the 2008 financial crisis.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Bill Gates and 1 other

When Genius FailedWhen Genius Failed
T1 When Genius Failed
Roger Lowenstein · 2000
Open LibraryGoodreads

How a hedge fund's bond bets on borrowed money lost $4.6 billion in four months.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai and 6 others

ArtemisArtemis
T4 Artemis
Andy Weir · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads
The Master and MargaritaThe Master and Margarita
T4 The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov · 1966
Open LibraryGoodreads

A novel in which the devil, as Professor Woland, brings chaos to Soviet Moscow.

Also recommended by: Patrick Collison, Alexey Moiseenkov and 2 others

InfluenceInfluence
T1 Influence
Robert B. Cialdini, PhD · 1983
Open LibraryGoodreads

Six principles of compliance, from reciprocity to scarcity, and how sellers use them.

Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Charlie Munger and 28 others

Predictably IrrationalPredictably Irrational
T2 Predictably Irrational
Dan Ariely · 2008
Open LibraryGoodreads

Experiments showing that people depart from rational choice in repeatable ways.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Alfred Lin, Anna Cheng and 5 others

Structure and Interpretation of Computer ProStructure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
T1 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Harold Abelson · 1985
Open LibraryGoodreads

MIT's introductory computer science text, taught through Lisp and Scheme.

Also recommended by: Patrick Collison, Paul Graham, Bret Victor

The Art of Computer ProgrammingThe Art of Computer Programming
T4 The Art of Computer Programming
Donald E. Knuth · 1968
Open LibraryGoodreads
The FoundersThe Founders
T2 The Founders
Jimmy Soni · 2021
Open LibraryGoodreads

PayPal from Confinity and X.com through the merger to the 2002 sale to eBay.

Also recommended by: David Sacks, Elon Musk, Keith Rabois and 2 others