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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Retail and consumer founders

Founders and entrepreneurs

Founders of shops, consumer brands, clothing labels, cosmetics and direct-selling firms.

Books 14Experts 1Recommenders 35

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  1. Shoe DogPhil Knight, 2016
  2. King C. GilletteRussell B. Adams, 1978
  3. An Enterprising LifeJay Van Andel, 1998
  4. Tupperware UnsealedBob Kealing, 2008
  5. L. L. Bean--The Man and His Company: The Complete StoryJames L. Witherell, 2011
Shoe DogShoe Dog
T1 Shoe Dog
Phil Knight · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

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

“…books I've recommended, highlighted to death, or forced on friends.” — Andrew Wilkinson

Source: Andrew Wilkinson's Bookshelf, neverenough.com

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Bill Gates, Mohnish Pabrai and 25 others

King C. GilletteKing C. Gillette
T3 King C. Gillette
Russell B. Adams · 1978
Open LibraryGoodreads

King Gillette, his safety razor and the disputed give-away-the-handle story.

An Enterprising LifeAn Enterprising Life
T3 An Enterprising Life
Jay Van Andel · 1998
Open LibraryGoodreads

Amway's co-founder's own account; read alongside the criticism.

Tupperware UnsealedTupperware Unsealed
T3 Tupperware Unsealed
Bob Kealing · 2008
Open LibraryGoodreads

Brownie Wise and the home-party sales network that made Tupperware.

L. L. Bean--The Man and His Company: The Com
T3 L. L. Bean--The Man and His Company: The Complete Story
James L. Witherell · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Sol Price: Retail RevolutionarySol Price: Retail Revolutionary
T3 Sol Price: Retail Revolutionary
Robert E. Price · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads

The life of Sol Price, who invented the warehouse club and taught Costco.

Becoming Trader JoeBecoming Trader Joe
T3 Becoming Trader Joe
Joe Coulombe · 2021
Open LibraryGoodreads

Founder's account of a private-label, limited-SKU, high-turn grocery model.

Les Schwab: Pride in PerformanceLes Schwab: Pride in Performance
T4 Les Schwab: Pride in Performance
Les Schwab · 1986
Open LibraryGoodreads

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

“If you want to read one book, read the autobiography of Les Schwab... He ran tire shops in the Midwest and made a fortune” — Charlie Munger

Source: Notes from the 2004 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, by Whitney Tilson, p. 35

Recommended by: Charlie Munger

An Eye for WinnersAn Eye for Winners
T4 An Eye for Winners
Lillian Vernon · 1996
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Copy This!: Lessons from a Hyperactive DysleCopy This!: Lessons from a Hyperactive Dyslexic who Turned a Bright Idea Into One of America's Best Companies
T4 Copy This!: Lessons from a Hyperactive Dyslexic who Turned a Bright Idea Into One of America's Best Companies
Paul Orfalea, Ann Marsh · 2005
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of aLet My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
T4 Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
Yvon Chouinard · 2005
Open LibraryGoodreads

Patagonia's founder on running a business against conventional growth logic

Recommended by: Nat Eliason, Patrick Collison, David Cancel and 3 others

The Man from ZaraThe Man from Zara
T4 The Man from Zara
Covadonga O'Shea · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads

Amancio Ortega and Zara's fast-fashion model of short cycles and nearby factories.

UnlabelUnlabel
T4 Unlabel
Marc Ecko · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Chase Jarvis

#GIRLBOSS#GIRLBOSS
T4 #GIRLBOSS
Sophia Amoruso · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Audrey Gelman

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