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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Scaling and Leading a Startup

Entrepreneurship and Startups

These books cover the work of running a young company as it grows: hiring, culture, boards, management systems and the founder's role as chief executive.

Books 20Experts 5Recommenders 38

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  1. BlitzscalingReid Hoffman, Chris Yeh, 2018
  2. The Founder's MentalityChris Zook, James Allen, 2016
  3. High Growth HandbookElad Gil, 2018
  4. Unreasonable HospitalityWill Guidara
  5. Beyond EntrepreneurshipJim Collins, William C. Lazier, 1992
BlitzscalingBlitzscaling
T2 Blitzscaling
Reid Hoffman, Chris Yeh · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

When and how to put speed before efficiency to capture a market before rivals.

Recommended by: Anthony Pompliano, Bill Gates, Biz Stone and 7 others

The Founder's MentalityThe Founder's Mentality
T3 The Founder's Mentality
Chris Zook, James Allen · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

Bain's account of what founder-led companies lose as they scale.

High Growth HandbookHigh Growth Handbook
T3 High Growth Handbook
Elad Gil · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Operating manual for scaling a company from fifty to thousands

Recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan, Matt Mullenweg and 10 others

Unreasonable HospitalityUnreasonable Hospitality
T3 Unreasonable Hospitality
Will Guidara
Goodreads

Recommended by: Matt Mullenweg

Beyond EntrepreneurshipBeyond Entrepreneurship
T4 Beyond Entrepreneurship
Jim Collins, William C. Lazier · 1992
Open LibraryGoodreads

How leaders turn a founder-driven startup into a company that lasts.

Recommended by: Reed Hastings

No Man's LandNo Man's Land
T4 No Man's Land
Doug Tatum · 2007
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Sophia Amoruso

EntreleadershipEntreleadership
T4 Entreleadership
Dave Ramsey · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

A step-by-step playbook for growing a small business, from Ramsey's own company.

Recommended by: David Cancel, Nick Huber

The Founder's DilemmasThe Founder's Dilemmas
T4 The Founder's Dilemmas
Noam Wasserman · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads

Data on 10,000 founders: co-founders, hiring, investors, control and succession.

Recommended by: Patrick Collison, Leo Polovets

Startup BoardsStartup Boards
T4 Startup Boards
Brad Feld, Mahendra Ramsinghani · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

second edition 2022 adds Matt Blumberg

The Virgin Way: Everything I Know About LeadThe Virgin Way: Everything I Know About Leadership
T4 The Virgin Way: Everything I Know About Leadership
Richard · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Hot SeatHot Seat
T4 Hot Seat
Dan Shapiro · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Brad Feld

Dear FounderDear Founder
T4 Dear Founder
Maynard Webb · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Meg Whitman

The Messy MiddleThe Messy Middle
T4 The Messy Middle
Scott Belsky · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Jackie Vullinghs

The Great CEO WithinThe Great CEO Within
T4 The Great CEO Within
Matt Mochary · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

An operating manual for founders scaling from a few people to a few hundred.

Recommended by: Nat Eliason, Alexis Ohanian, Ali Abdaal and 4 others

What You Do Is Who You AreWhat You Do Is Who You Are
T4 What You Do Is Who You Are
Ben Horowitz · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

Culture is how people behave when the leader is absent, and must be designed.

Recommended by: Matt Mullenweg, Andrew Chen, Anu Hariharan and 2 others

BE 2.0 (Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0)
T4 BE 2.0 (Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0)
Jim Collins, William C. Lazier · 2020
Open LibraryGoodreads

Expanded edition of the 1992 book

Masters of ScaleMasters of Scale
T4 Masters of Scale
Reid Hoffman, June Cohen, Deron Triff · 2021
Open LibraryGoodreads

Book drawn from the Masters of Scale podcast

Mastering the Rockerfeller Habits and Scalin
T4 Mastering the Rockerfeller Habits and Scaling Up
Verne Harnish
Goodreads

An operating framework for growing firms: priorities, data and meeting rhythm.

Recommended by: Julie Stevanja

PurposefulPurposeful
T4 Purposeful
Jennifer Dulski
Goodreads

Recommended by: Arianna Huffington

Traction: Get A Grip On Your BusinessTraction: Get A Grip On Your Business
T4 Traction: Get A Grip On Your Business
Gino Wickman
Goodreads

Recommended by: Nat Eliason

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