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An unofficial fan index

Every book from the Founders podcast

385 books from 462 episodes, up to Episode #437. Each links to its episode and to Amazon.

Browse the libraryStart with eight essentials

The most-mentioned shelf

Ranked by how many episodes name the book

1
Cover of Against the Odds
Against the Odds24 episodes
2
Cover of Sam Walton: Made in America
Sam Walton: Made in America18 episodes
3
Cover of The Fish That Ate the Whale
The Fish That Ate the Whale17 episodes
4
Cover of Hard Drive
Hard Drive15 episodes
5
Cover of Zero to One
Zero to One13 episodes
6
Cover of Churchill
Churchill12 episodes
7
Cover of Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola12 episodes
8
Cover of Total Recall
Total Recall12 episodes
9
Cover of Jony Ive
Jony Ive11 episodes
10
Cover of The Everything Store
The Everything Store11 episodes
11
The Founders11 episodes
12
Cover of George Lucas
George Lucas10 episodes

Reading paths

Short, ordered lists, with progress saved on your device

Cover of Shoe Dog
Cover of Sam Walton: Made in America
Cover of The Everything Store
Cover of Titan
Cover of Steve Jobs

Start here

Eight books that come up again and again on the show. A good first shelf if you’re new.

8 books

Cover of Titan
Cover of The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
Cover of Meet You in Hell
Cover of The First Tycoon
Cover of Dark Genius of Wall Street

The Gilded Age builders

Oil, steel, railroads and banks: the people who built industrial America, and fought each other doing it.

7 books

Cover of Sam Walton: Made in America
Cover of Sol Price
Cover of Becoming Trader Joe
Cover of Leading by Design

Retail and the customer

Stores, warehouses and restaurants built by people who obsessed over price and the customer.

8 books

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The library

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385 books