Founder Memoirs

How Walmart grew from one Arkansas store by cutting costs and prices.

How a running-shoe importer became Nike, surviving one cash crisis after another.

A milkshake-machine salesman finds the McDonald brothers and builds the franchise.

How $27 lent to 42 villagers grew into Grameen Bank and microcredit.

How two fired executives built Home Depot into a national chain.

How Salesforce was built, set out as 111 plays on marketing, sales and growth.

From LinkExchange to Zappos, and the case for building a company on its culture.

From student apartments in Ann Arbor to selling Equity Office to Blackstone in 2007.

Building Creative Artists Agency into Hollywood's top agency, then failing at Disney.

Amazon's shareholder letters from 1997 to 2019, with speeches and interviews.

Insider account of a New York developer's own deals.

Insider account: Schultz on building the company to 1997.

Insider account of build-to-order, negative working capital and cutting the channel.

Insider account: Netflix co-founder, including the Blockbuster pitch.

Media executive's memoir spanning Paramount, Fox and IAC

Founder's account of building Firestone; business sense from the tyre trade

Tire-shop founder's memoir on profit sharing and dealer economics

How a basement kitchenware business grew into a billion-dollar company.

Entrepreneur's memoir of building and selling successive companies

Lessons from building CD Baby from a side project to an $85 million business.

How Method's eco-friendly cleaners took shelf space from P&G and Unilever.

Lessons in 'unreasonable thinking' from building companies and giving away wealth.

A brewer's business lessons, anecdotes and advice for building a career or a company.

Where politics meets startups taking on incumbents in regulated industries.

A children's story of the small digger that worked to free the stuck ship Ever Given.