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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Founder stories and advice

Founders and entrepreneurs

Collections of founder profiles, advice books, and memoirs of founders who worked across several industries.

Books 11Experts 4Recommenders 22

Start here

  1. Founders at WorkJessica Livingston, 2007
  2. Business Leaders and SuccessWilliam J. O'Neil, 2003
  3. 1,000 Dollars and an IdeaSam Wyly, 2008
  4. Anything You WantDerek Sivers, 2011
  5. Do Cool Sh*tMiki Agrawal, 2013
Founders at WorkFounders at Work
T3 Founders at Work
Jessica Livingston · 2007
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Ryan Holiday, Alexis Ohanian, Andrew Chen and 6 others

Business Leaders and Success
T4 Business Leaders and Success
William J. O'Neil · 2003
Open LibraryGoodreads

Compiled from Investor's Business Daily profiles.

1,000 Dollars and an Idea1,000 Dollars and an Idea
T4 1,000 Dollars and an Idea
Sam Wyly · 2008
Open LibraryGoodreads

Entrepreneur's memoir of building and selling successive companies

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Anything You WantAnything You Want
T4 Anything You Want
Derek Sivers · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

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

Recommended by: Nat Eliason, Ali Abdaal, Paul Jarvis and 2 others

Do Cool Sh*tDo Cool Sh*t
T4 Do Cool Sh*t
Miki Agrawal · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Jim Kwik, Tony Hsieh

Getting There: A Book of MentorsGetting There: A Book of Mentors
T4 Getting There: A Book of Mentors
Gillian Zoe Segal · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

In the Company of WomenIn the Company of Women
T4 In the Company of Women
Grace Bonney · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Sheryl Sandberg

The Third DoorThe Third Door
T4 The Third Door
Alex Banayan · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Ran Segall

How I Almost Blew ItHow I Almost Blew It
T4 How I Almost Blew It
Sidharth Rao · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Girish Mathrubootham

PowershiftPowershift
T4 Powershift
Daymond John · 2020
Open LibraryGoodreads

A process for using power in negotiations to close deals and reach a chosen outcome.

Recommended by: James Altucher

The Minefield Girl
T4 The Minefield Girl
Sofia Ek
Goodreads

Recommended by: Daniel Ek

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