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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Technology founders

Founders and entrepreneurs

Biographies and memoirs of the people who started computer, software, internet, chip and AI companies.

Books 17Experts 2Recommenders 15

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  1. The New New ThingMichael Lewis, 1999
  2. The Man Behind the MicrochipLeslie Berlin, 2005
  3. Idea ManPaul Allen, 2011
  4. The Philosopher in the ValleyMichael Steinberger, 2025
  5. The Maverick and His MachineKevin Maney, 2003
The New New ThingThe New New Thing
T2 The New New Thing
Michael Lewis · 1999
Open LibraryGoodreads

Jim Clark, founder of Silicon Graphics and Netscape, starts a third company in 1999.

Recommended by: Ryan Holiday, Andrew Chen, Austen Allred and 1 other

The Man Behind the MicrochipThe Man Behind the Microchip
T2 The Man Behind the Microchip
Leslie Berlin · 2005
Open LibraryGoodreads

Robert Noyce, Fairchild Semiconductor and the founding of Intel.

Recommended by: Jim Collins, Mohnish Pabrai and 2 others

Idea ManIdea Man
T2 Idea Man
Paul Allen · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

A Microsoft co-founder's memoir of his ventures, successes and failures.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

The Philosopher in the ValleyThe Philosopher in the Valley
T2 The Philosopher in the Valley
Michael Steinberger · 2025
Open LibraryGoodreads

Alex Karp and Palantir's path from CIA funding to the surveillance state.

The Maverick and His MachineThe Maverick and His Machine
T3 The Maverick and His Machine
Kevin Maney · 2003
Open LibraryGoodreads

Thomas Watson Sr. and how he built IBM and its sales culture.

The Space BaronsThe Space Barons
T3 The Space Barons
Christian Davenport · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

SpaceX against Blue Origin and the legacy contractors.

Sam Pitroda: A BiographySam Pitroda: A Biography
T4 Sam Pitroda: A Biography
Mayank Chhaya · 1992
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

The HP WayThe HP Way
T4 The HP Way
David Packard · 1995
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

In the Company of GiantsIn the Company of Giants
T4 In the Company of Giants
Rama Dev Jager · 1997
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Patrick Collison, Keith Rabois

How to Castrate a BullHow to Castrate a Bull
T4 How to Castrate a Bull
Dave Hitz · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Aaron Levie

Bend, Not BreakBend, Not Break
T4 Bend, Not Break
Ping Fu · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Simon Sinek

No Better TimeNo Better Time
T4 No Better Time
Molly Knight Raskin · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

The short life of Danny Lewin and Akamai Technologies, which changed the internet.

Recommended by: Brad Feld

A Truck Full of MoneyA Truck Full of Money
T4 A Truck Full of Money
Tracy Kidder · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Brad Feld

TroublemakersTroublemakers
T4 Troublemakers
Leslie Berlin · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Aileen Lee, Austen Allred, Keith Rabois and 1 other

Lost and FounderLost and Founder
T4 Lost and Founder
Rand Fishkin · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Jake Knapp

Tech Boss Lady
T4 Tech Boss Lady
Adriana Gascoigne · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Arianna Huffington

The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMiThe Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence
T4 The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence
Sebastian Mallaby · 2026
Open LibraryGoodreads

Fifteen years of AI through Demis Hassabis and DeepMind, from AlphaGo to AlphaFold.

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