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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Vlad Tenev

Industries

Moved from Bulgaria to the US at five, studied mathematics at Stanford and UCLA, then built several fintech start-ups with Baiju Bhatt, Robinhood among them.

Robinhood

Vlad Tenev on Medium

1 article · 8 books they recommend

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Shoe DogShoe Dog
T1 Shoe Dog
Phil Knight · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

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

Small FrySmall Fry
T2 Small Fry
Lisa Brennan-Jobs · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

A daughter's memoir of a California childhood between her mother and Steve Jobs.

Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson

AntifragileAntifragile
T3 Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads

Incerto volume 4

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason and 24 others

The RepublicThe Republic
T4 The Republic
Plato
Goodreads

What justice is, answered by building an ideal city in dialogue.

Also recommended by: Patrick Collison, Mark Zuckerberg and 3 others

The Black SwanThe Black Swan
T4 The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2005
Open LibraryGoodreads

Rare, unforeseen, high-impact events drive history, explained only after the fact.

Also recommended by: Howard Marks, Marc Andreessen, Nat Eliason and 17 others

Animal FarmAnimal Farm
T4 Animal Farm
George Orwell · 1945
Open LibraryGoodreads

Also recommended by: Sahil Lavingia, Sophie Bakalar

ComplexityComplexity
T4 Complexity
Roger Lewin · 1992
Open LibraryGoodreads
The Art of WarThe Art of War
T3 The Art of War
Sun Tzu · 1900
Open LibraryGoodreads

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.

Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Evan Spiegel, Fred Wilson and 3 others