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Keith Rabois
Keith Rabois is an American technology entrepreneur, executive and investor
89 books they recommend
Books they recommend 89
Rabois published a long reading list (originally on Medium) and recommends books constantly on Twitter and Quora, often with terse verdicts. His tastes are broad: management classics (Grove), Silicon Valley/Apple history, statistics and decision-making, Churchill-era history, and neuroscience. He is known for naming "indispensable books of the year" and pushing operators toward rigor.
Book recommendations listed on their Good Books profile 74
Company Histories 11
Business and Management 9
Technology and Computing 8
Entrepreneurship and Startups 7
Biography and Memoir 6
General History 5
Psychology and Behaviour 5
Medicine and Biology 4
Mathematics and Statistics 4
Productivity and Habits 2
Health and Fitness 2
Sociology and Culture 2
Decision Making 2
Sales and Marketing 2
Philosophy 1
Leadership 1
Artificial Intelligence 1
Politics and Government 1
War and Strategy 1
Superbook reading list 13
Not yet given a topic 3
Hamilton Helmer
“Recommended on his Medium reading list as a strategy framework.”
Erik Larson · not in an entry yet
“He notes Churchill books "take on different meanings during crisis vs peace."”
Max Tegmark · not in an entry yet
“He calls it the "best AI introduction, accessible to sophisticated readers."”
Business and Management 1
Andrew S. Grove
“A core recommendation from his reading list; he treats Grove as the canonical management text.”
Entrepreneurship and Startups 1
Ben Horowitz
“He recommends it as reflecting the brutal 2000-2003 startup era.”
Technology and Computing 1
Ken Kocienda
“He named it "one of two indispensable books of 2018," on Apple's product process.”
Mathematics and Statistics 1
Psychology and Behaviour 1
Robert M. Sapolsky · not in an entry yet
“"A bit of a long commitment but worth it. Provocative."”
Company Histories 1
Michael Moritz
“He calls it a "classic book to read" on Apple's early history.”
General History 1
Yuval Noah Harari · not in an entry yet
“Recommended on his Medium reading list as essential broad-knowledge reading.”
Science 1
Richard Hamming · not in an entry yet
“"Not for everyone but recommend for tech folks."”