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2026
- #437
The Tycoons: Carnegie, Rockefeller, Gould & Morgan
October 13, 2026 · The Tycoons
- #436
Ari Emanuel’s Autobiography
October 5, 2026 · Roll the Calls
- #435
Mark Zuckerberg’s Empire
September 28, 2026 · Mark
- #434
Sam Walton
September 21, 2026 · Sam Walton
- #433
How Michael Bloomberg Works
September 14, 2026 · Bloomberg
- #432
The Mind of Napoleon
September 5, 2026 · The Mind of Napoleon
- #431
How Henry Singleton Worked
August 31, 2026 · Distant Force, The Outsiders
- #430
How to Write Ads That Sell
August 23, 2026 · My Life in Advertising, Scientific Advertising
- #429
Bob Dylan’s Autobiography
August 16, 2026 · Chronicles: Volume One
- #428
How Claude Shannon Worked
August 9, 2026
- #427
How Raymond Plank Built a $50 Billion Oil Company
August 1, 2026 · A Small Difference
- #426
How Obsession Built Christopher Nolan
July 26, 2026 · The Nolan Variations
- #425
The Merchant Bankers
July 19, 2026 · The Merchant Bankers
- #424
Peter Thiel on How to Build a Creative Monopoly
July 10, 2026 · Zero to One
- #423
Soichiro Honda
June 28, 2026 · Honda
- #422
Joseph Pulitzer
June 20, 2026 · Pulitzer
- #421
Jony Ive
June 10, 2026 · Jony Ive
- #420
Steve Jobs In Exile
June 4, 2026 · Steve Jobs in Exile
- #419
Kelly Johnson: Skunk Works
May 16, 2026 · Kelly
- #418
Phil Knight: Founder of Nike
May 7, 2026 · Shoe Dog
- #417
Arnold Schwarzenegger
April 19, 2026 · Arnold
- #416
The Relentless Missionary Creating AGI: Demis Hassabis
April 1, 2026 · The Infinity Machine
- #415
How Elon Thinks
March 24, 2026 · The Book of Elon
- #414
How SpaceX Works
March 8, 2026
- #413
How To Run Down A Dream
March 3, 2026 · Runnin' Down a Dream
- #412
How Roger Federer Works
February 19, 2026 · The Master
- #411
Tortured Into Greatness: The Life of Andre Agassi
February 4, 2026 · Open
- #410
Excellent Advice for Living
January 25, 2026 · Excellent Advice for Living
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The Singular Life of Rick Rubin
January 16, 2026 · Rick Rubin: In the Studio
- #409
The Creative Genius of Rick Rubin
January 8, 2026 · The Creative Act
2025
- #408
How to Make a Few MORE Billion Dollars: Brad Jacobs
December 29, 2025 · How to Make a Few More Billion Dollars
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The Life of Jesus
December 25, 2025 · Jesus
- #407
Bruce Springsteen Repairs the Hole in Himself
December 14, 2025 · Born to Run
- #406
Christian von Koenigsegg
December 3, 2025
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Red Bull’s Billionaire Maniac Founder
November 25, 2025
- #405
How Rockefeller Worked
November 17, 2025
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My conversation with Todd Graves
November 9, 2025
- #404
How Larry Ellison Thinks
November 4, 2025 · Softwar
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My Conversation with Brad Jacobs
October 28, 2025
- #403
How Jensen Works
October 20, 2025 · The Nvidia Way
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My Conversation with Michael Dell
October 13, 2025
- #402
Thomas Peterffy: The $80 Billion Founder Who Automates Everything
October 5, 2025
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My conversation with Daniel Ek: Founder of Spotify
September 28, 2025
- #401
How Bill Gates Works
September 24, 2025 · Source Code, Hard Drive, Overdrive
- #400
The Stubborn Genius of James Dyson
September 12, 2025 · Against the Odds, Invention
- #399
How Elon Works
August 25, 2025 · Elon Musk
- #398
Steve Jobs In His Own Words (Make Something Wonderful)
August 14, 2025 · Make Something Wonderful
- #397
Jiro Ono: Simplicity Is The Ultimate Advantage
August 4, 2025
- #396
The Obsession of Enzo Ferrari
July 30, 2025 · The Terrible Joys of Enzo Ferrari, The Story of Ferrari, Enzo Ferrari
- #395
How Geniuses and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World’s Fastest-Growing Sport
July 22, 2025 · The Formula
- #394
An Orphan Who Built An Empire: Leonardo Del Vecchio and The Founding of Luxottica
July 13, 2025 · Leonardo Del Vecchio
- #393
The Marketing Genius of the Michelin Brothers
July 3, 2025 · Michelin, The Michelin Men: Driving an Empire
- #392
Michele Ferrero and His $40 Billion Privately Owned Chocolate Empire
June 23, 2025 · Michele Ferrero
- #391
Jimmy Iovine
June 13, 2025
- #390
Rare Steve Jobs Interview
June 4, 2025
- #389
The Founder of Jimmy Choo: Tamara Mellon
May 26, 2025
- #388
Jeff Bezos’s Shareholder Letters: All of Them!
May 15, 2025 · Invent and Wander
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A conversation on focus and finding your life’s work
May 9, 2025
- #387
Jim Simons Built The World’s Greatest Money-Making Machine
May 1, 2025
- #386
Akio Morita: Founder of Sony
April 22, 2025
- #385
Michael Dell
April 14, 2025
- #384
Ken Griffin: Founder of Citadel and Citadel Securities
April 1, 2025 · Hardball
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The Invisible Billionaire: Daniel Ludwig
March 23, 2025 · The Invisible Billionaire: Daniel Ludwig
- #383
Todd Graves and his $10 Billion Chicken Finger Dream
March 17, 2025
- #382
Who Is Michael Ovitz?: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Most Powerful Man in Hollywood
March 7, 2025 · Who Is Michael Ovitz?
- #381
I Had Dinner With Michael Ovitz
March 7, 2025
- #380
Four Hundred Pages of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger In Their Own Words
February 25, 2025 · Buffett and Munger Unscripted
- #379
Jerry Jones (Dallas Cowboys)
February 18, 2025
- #378
The Last Oil Baron: Leon Hess
February 10, 2025 · Hess
- #377
Expanding A Family Dynasty: Marcus Wallenberg Jr.
January 27, 2025 · Furthering a Fortune
- #376
Jensen Huang: Founder of Nvidia
January 13, 2025 · The Nvidia Way
- #375
The Single Biggest Individual Financier In The World. The Richest Woman In America: Hetty Green
January 6, 2025 · Hetty, The Richest Woman in America
2024
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The Most Inspiring Autobiography I’ve Read: Chung Ju-yung Founder of Hyundai
December 27, 2024 · Born of This Land
- #374
Rare Jeff Bezos Interview
December 15, 2024
- #373
Breakfast with Brad Jacobs + How To Make A Few Billion Dollars
December 6, 2024 · How to Make a Few Billion Dollars
- #372
Amancio Ortega: The Genius Behind the Inditex Group
November 29, 2024 · This is Amancio Ortega
- #371
James J. Hill: The Empire Builder
November 18, 2024 · James J. Hill
- #370
The Founder of IKEA: Ingvar Kamprad
November 12, 2024 · Leading by Design
- #369
Elon Musk and The Early Days of SpaceX
November 1, 2024 · Liftoff
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Steve Jobs and Edwin Land
October 20, 2024 · Instant
- #368
Rockefeller’s Autobiography
October 15, 2024 · Random Reminiscences of Men and Events
- #367
Inside the Contrarian Mind of Sam Zell
October 8, 2024 · Money Talks, Bullsh*t Walks
- #366
Mr. Beast Leaked Memo
September 27, 2024
- #365
Nick Sleep’s Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters to Partners
September 16, 2024 · Richer, Wiser, Happier
- #364
Nick & Zak’s Excellent Adventure: How Nick Sleep and Qais Zaharia Built Their Investment Partnership
September 10, 2024 · Richer, Wiser, Happier
- #363
Li Lu and Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett
September 6, 2024
- #362
Li Lu
August 26, 2024 · Moving the Mountain
- #361
Estée Lauder
August 18, 2024 · Estée
- #360
Robert Kierlin: Founder of Fastenal
August 12, 2024 · The Power of Fastenal People
- #359
The Russian Rockefellers: The Nobel Family Dynasty
August 7, 2024
- #358
I had dinner with John Mackey, Founder of Whole Foods
July 28, 2024 · The Whole Story
- #357
Haruki Murakami
July 21, 2024 · What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
- #356
How The Sun Rose On Silicon Valley: Bob Noyce (Founder of Intel)
July 12, 2024 · The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce
- #355
Rare Bernard Arnault Interview
July 4, 2024 · The House of Arnault
- #354
Sam Walton: The Inside Story of America’s Richest Man
June 29, 2024 · Sam Walton
- #353
How To Be Rich by J. Paul Getty
June 23, 2024 · How to Be Rich
- #352
J. Paul Getty: The Richest Private Citizen in America
June 15, 2024 · As I See it
- #351
The Founder of Rolex: Hans Wilsdorf
June 4, 2024
- #350
How To Sell Like Steve Jobs
May 27, 2024 · The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs
- #349
How Steve Jobs Kept Things Simple
May 20, 2024 · Insanely Simple
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Michael Jordan In His Own Words
May 12, 2024 · Driven from Within
- #348
The Financial Genius Behind A Century of Wall Street Scandals: Ivar Kreuger
May 7, 2024 · The Match King
- #347
How Walt Disney Built His Greatest Creation: Disneyland
April 29, 2024 · Disney’s Land
- #346
How Walt Disney Built Himself
April 22, 2024 · Walt Disney
- #345
George Lucas
April 12, 2024 · George Lucas
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Steven Spielberg
April 4, 2024 · Steven Spielberg
- #344
Quentin Tarantino
March 30, 2024 · Cinema Speculation
- #343
The Eternal Pursuit of Unhappiness: David Ogilvy
March 24, 2024 · Eternal Pursuit of Unhappiness
- #342
The Lessons of History (Will & Ariel Durant)
March 18, 2024 · The Lessons of History
- #341
Cornelius Vanderbilt (Tycoon’s War)
March 11, 2024 · Tycoon’s War
- #340
Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant
March 1, 2024 · Relentless
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Jay Z’s Autobiography
February 25, 2024 · Decoded
- #339
Joseph Duveen: Robber Baron Art Dealer
February 20, 2024 · The Days of Duveen
- #338
Monty Moncrief Texas Oil Billionaire
February 13, 2024 · Wildcatters
- #337
Napoleon’s Maxims and Strategy
February 5, 2024 · Roots of Strategy, Napoleon and Modern War
- #336
How To Lose A Few Billion Dollars: Samuel Insull
February 1, 2024 · Insull
- #335
How To Make A Few Billion Dollars: Brad Jacobs
January 23, 2024 · How to Make a Few Billion Dollars
- #334
Oprah
January 16, 2024
- #333
Red Bull’s Billionaire Maniac Founder: Dietrich Mateschitz
January 8, 2024 · The Red Bull Story
2023
- #332
Jesus
December 24, 2023 · Jesus
- #331
Christian Dior
December 18, 2023 · Dior, Creators
- #330
Les Schwab (Charlie Munger recommended this book)
December 11, 2023 · Les Schwab: Pride in Performance
- #329
Charlie Munger (the NEW Poor Charlie’s Almanack)
December 5, 2023 · Poor Charlie’s Almanack
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Reflections from my dinner with Charlie Munger
November 29, 2023
- #328
Tom Murphy (Buffett’s favorite manager)
November 22, 2023 · The Outsiders
- #327
Ted Turner
November 14, 2023 · Call Me Ted
- #326
Anna Wintour
November 6, 2023 · Anna
- #325
Larry Gagosian (Billionaire Art Dealer)
October 29, 2023 · How Larry Gagosian Reshaped the Art World
- #324
John D. Rockefeller (38 Letters Rockefeller Wrote to His Son)
October 21, 2023 · The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to His Son
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Mike Bloomberg
October 10, 2023 · Bloomberg
- #323
Jimmy Buffett
October 3, 2023 · Jimmy Buffett, A Pirate Looks at Fifty
- #322
Herb Kelleher (Southwest Airlines)
September 26, 2023 · Nuts!, Herb’s Heroes
- #321
Working with Jeff Bezos
September 21, 2023 · Working Backwards
- #320
The Making of Winston Churchill Part 2
September 14, 2023 · Young Titan
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Sam Zemurray (The Fish That Ate the Whale)
September 11, 2023 · The Fish That Ate the Whale
- #319
The Making of Winston Churchill Part 1
September 5, 2023 · Hero of the Empire
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The best interview I’ve ever done about Founders
September 3, 2023
- #318
Alistair Urquhart (Listen to this when you’re stressed)
August 27, 2023 · The Forgotten Highlander
- #317
Ed Catmull (Founder of Pixar)
August 21, 2023 · Creativity, Inc.
- #316
Bugatti
August 14, 2023 · The Bugatti Story
- #315
Balenciaga
August 7, 2023 · Creators
- #314
Paul Graham (How To Do Great Work)
July 31, 2023 · How to Do Great Work
- #313
Christopher Nolan
July 25, 2023 · The Nolan Variations
- #312
Mark Twain
July 19, 2023 · Lighting Out for the Territory
- #311
James Cameron
July 12, 2023 · The Futurist
- #310
Walt Disney and Picasso
July 4, 2023 · Creators
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Michael Jordan (The Life)
June 30, 2023 · Michael Jordan
- #309
Arnold Schwarzenegger (Before He Was Successful)
June 26, 2023 · Arnold and Me
- #308
The Founder of Glock
June 19, 2023 · Glock
- #307
The World’s Great Family Dynasties: Rockefeller, Rothschild, Morgan, & Toyada
June 12, 2023 · Dynasties
- #306
David Ogilvy (Confessions of an Advertising Man)
June 5, 2023 · Confessions of an Advertising Man
- #305
Robert Caro on power, poverty, ruthlessness, & obsession
May 29, 2023 · Working
- #304
Sol Price (The Founder Who Taught Jim Sinegal, Sam Walton, Jeff Bezos, Bernie Marcus)
May 22, 2023 · Sol Price
- #303
Rose Blumkin (Warren Buffett’s Favorite Founder)
May 14, 2023 · The Women of Berkshire Hathaway
- #302
Napoleon (The Mind of Napoleon)
May 8, 2023 · The Mind of Napoleon
- #301
Tiger Woods
May 1, 2023 · Tiger Woods
- #300
James Dyson (Against the Odds)
April 24, 2023 · Against the Odds
- #299
Steve Jobs (Make Something Wonderful)
April 17, 2023 · Make Something Wonderful
- #298
I had lunch with Sam Zell
April 10, 2023 · Zeckendorf
- #297
Yvon Chouinard (Patagonia)
April 3, 2023 · Let My People Go Surfing
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A conversation with David and Ben from the Acquired podcast
March 29, 2023
- #296
Bernard Arnault (The Richest Man in the World)
March 27, 2023 · The Taste of Luxury
- #295
I had dinner with Charlie Munger
March 21, 2023 · The Tao of Charlie Munger
- #294
Napoleon
March 13, 2023 · Napoleon
- #293
Ray Kroc (The Making of McDonald’s)
March 6, 2023 · Grinding It Out
- #292
Daniel Ludwig (The Invisible Billionaire)
February 27, 2023 · The Invisible Billionaire: Daniel Ludwig
- #291
David Packard (Founder of HP)
February 20, 2023 · The HP Way
- #290
Bill Gates
February 13, 2023 · Hard Drive
- #289
Brunello Cucinelli
February 7, 2023 · The Dream of Solomeo
- #288
Ralph Lauren
January 31, 2023 · Ralph Lauren
- #287
The Founder of Rolls-Royce
January 23, 2023 · Rolls-Royce
- #286
Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger
January 16, 2023 · All I Want to Know Is Where I’m Going to Die So I’ll Never Go There
- #285
Jay Gould (How Jay Gould Built Wall Street’s Biggest Fortune)
January 10, 2023 · American Rascal
- #284
Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick
January 2, 2023 · Meet You in Hell
2022
- #283
Andrew Carnegie
December 26, 2022 · The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
- #282
Jeff Bezos Shareholder Letters
December 19, 2022 · Invent and Wander
- #281
Working with Steve Jobs
December 12, 2022 · Creative Selection
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The Founder of Kinkos — Paul Orfalea
December 9, 2022 · Copy This!
- #280
Jimi Hendrix
December 6, 2022 · Starting at Zero
- #279
What I Learned Before I Sold to Warren Buffett
November 29, 2022 · What I Learned Before I Sold to Warren Buffett
- #278
Peter Thiel
November 22, 2022 · Zero to One
- #277
Paul Graham’s Essays Part 3
November 17, 2022 · Hackers and Painters
- #276
Paul Graham’s Essays Part 2
November 9, 2022
- #275
Paul Graham
November 3, 2022
- #274
Jim Clark (Silicon Graphics, Netscape)
October 27, 2022 · The New New Thing
- #273
Kobe Bryant (Mamba Mentality)
October 26, 2022 · The Mamba Mentality: How I Play
- #272
Kobe Bryant (The Life)
October 19, 2022 · Showboat
- #271
Vannevar Bush (Engineer of the American Century)
October 12, 2022 · Endless Frontier
- #270
Vannevar Bush (Pieces of the Action)
October 6, 2022 · Pieces of the Action
- #269
Sam Zell
September 29, 2022 · Am I Being Too Subtle?
- #268
John Malone (Cable Cowboy)
September 21, 2022 · Cable Cowboy
- #267
Thomas Edison
September 14, 2022 · Edison
- #266
Henry Ford’s Autobiography
September 8, 2022 · My Life and Work
- #265
Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader
August 30, 2022 · Becoming Steve Jobs
- #264
The Story of Edwin Land and Polaroid
August 24, 2022 · Instant
- #263
Land’s Polaroid: A Company and the Man Who Invented It
August 18, 2022 · Land’s Polaroid
- #262
Herbie Cohen (World’s Greatest Negotiator)
August 11, 2022 · The Adventures of Herbie Cohen
- #261
Dee Hock’s Autobiography of a Restless Mind Volume One and Two
August 4, 2022 · Autobiography of a Restless Mind
- #260
One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization
August 3, 2022 · One from Many
- #259
Bob Dylan
July 27, 2022 · Chronicles: Volume One
- #258
Jay Gould (Dark Genius of Wall Street)
July 22, 2022 · Dark Genius of Wall Street
- #257
Richard Garriott (Video Games and Space Exploration)
July 15, 2022 · Explore/Create My Life in Pursuit of New Frontiers, Hidden Worlds, and the Creative Spark
- #256
Edward L. Bernays (Public Relations, Advertising, & Persuasion)
July 9, 2022 · The Father of Spin
- #255
Sam Zemurray (Banana King)
July 2, 2022 · The Fish That Ate the Whale
- #254
John D. Rockefeller: The Founding Father of the Rockefellers
June 27, 2022 · John D
- #253
Henry Goldman (Goldman Sachs)
June 22, 2022 · When Money Was in Fashion
- #252
Socrates
June 17, 2022 · Socrates
- #251
Ben Franklin and George Washington: The Founding Partnership
June 13, 2022 · Franklin & Washington
- #250
Jacob Fugger (The Richest Man Who Ever Lived)
June 8, 2022 · The Richest Man Who Ever Lived
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Steve Jobs’s Heroes
June 2, 2022
- #249
Steve Jobs In His Own Words
June 1, 2022 · I, Steve
- #248
John D. Rockefeller (Titan)
May 28, 2022 · Titan
- #247
Henry Flagler (Rockefeller’s partner)
May 19, 2022 · Last Train to Paradise
- #246
Mark Leonard’s Shareholder Letters
May 13, 2022
- #245
Rick Rubin (In the Studio)
May 8, 2022 · Rick Rubin: In the Studio
- #244
Harry Snyder (In-N-Out Burger)
May 3, 2022 · In-N-Out Burger
- #243
Francis Greenburger (Real Estate Billionaire)
April 25, 2022 · Risk Game
- #242
Francis Ford Coppola: A Filmmaker’s Life
April 21, 2022 · Francis Ford Coppola
- #241
The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies
April 14, 2022 · Birdmen
- #240
Mozart: A Life
April 7, 2022 · Mozart
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Steve Jobs and His Heroes
April 1, 2022
- #239
The Wright Brothers
March 29, 2022 · The Wright Brothers
- #238
Jay Z: Decoded
March 23, 2022 · Decoded
- #237
Julio Lobo (Cuba’s Last Sugar Tycoon)
March 16, 2022 · The Sugar King of Havana
- #236
Nims Purja (Mountain Climber)
March 11, 2022 · Beyond Possible
- #235
Steve Jobs (The Pixar Story)
March 7, 2022 · To Pixar and Beyond
- #234
Sam Walton: Made In America
February 28, 2022 · Sam Walton: Made in America
- #233
Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Max Levchin (PayPal)
February 23, 2022 · The Founders
- #232
Alexander the Great
February 16, 2022 · Alexander the Great
- #231
William Rosenberg (Founder of Dunkin Donuts)
February 12, 2022 · Time to Make the Donuts
- #230
Lucille Ball (TV’s biggest star)
February 7, 2022 · Love, Lucy
- #229
Sidney Harman (Founder of Harman Kardon)
January 30, 2022 · Mind Your Own Business
- #228
Michael Bloomberg
January 27, 2022 · Bloomberg
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I read 66 biographies last year— Here are my top 10!
January 24, 2022
- #227
The Essays of Warren Buffett
January 20, 2022 · The Essays of Warren Buffett
- #226
Heroes: From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de Gaulle
January 12, 2022 · Heroes
- #225
Winston Churchill
January 9, 2022 · Churchill
- #224
Charles de Gaulle
January 5, 2022 · Charles de Gaulle
2021
- #223
Unstoppable: Siggi Wilzig’s Astonishing Journey from Auschwitz Survivor and Penniless Immigrant to Wall Street Legend
December 29, 2021 · Unstoppable
- #222
Ed Thorp (My personal blueprint)
December 20, 2021 · A Man for All Markets
- #221
Charlie Munger
December 13, 2021 · Damn Right
- #220
Enzo Ferrari: The Man and the Machine
December 9, 2021 · Enzo Ferrari
- #219
Tony Bourdain: The Definitive Biography
November 30, 2021 · Bourdain
- #218
Johan Cruyff (A Life of Total Football)
November 25, 2021 · My Turn
- #217
Estée Lauder
November 18, 2021 · Estée Lauder
- #216
Paul Van Doren (Founder of Vans)
November 14, 2021 · Authentic
- #215
J. Robert Oppenheimer and Leslie Groves (The General and the Genius)
November 9, 2021 · The General and the Genius
- #214
Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography
November 3, 2021 · Steve Jobs
- #213
Michael Jordan: Driven From Within
October 27, 2021 · Driven from Within
- #212
Michael Jordan: The Life
October 23, 2021 · Michael Jordan
- #211
Aristotle Onassis: An Extravagant Life
October 16, 2021 · Onassis
- #210
Stephen King On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
October 10, 2021 · On Writing
- #209
Steven Spielberg: A Biography
October 6, 2021 · Steven Spielberg
- #208
Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Bill Gates, Andy Grove, Bill Hewlett
September 29, 2021 · In the Company of Giants
- #207
Claude Hopkins (Scientific Advertising)
September 26, 2021 · Scientific Advertising
- #206
Albert D. Lasker (the creation of the advertising industry)
September 23, 2021 · The Man Who Sold America
- #205
James Dyson (Invention: A Life)
September 18, 2021 · Invention
- #204
Steve Jobs (Inside Steve’s Brain)
September 14, 2021 · Inside Steve’s Brian
- #203
Georges Doriot (Birth of Venture Capital)
September 8, 2021 · Creative Capital
- #202
A Few Lessons From Warren Buffett
September 2, 2021 · A Few Lessons for Investors and Managers from Warren Buffett
- #201
Isambard Kingdom Brunel (James Dyson’s Hero)
August 30, 2021 · Isambard Kingdom Brunel
- #200
James Dyson (Against the Odds)
August 27, 2021 · Against the Odds
- #199
Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life
August 20, 2021 · Coco Chanel
- #198
Nathan Rothschild (Rothschild Family Dynasty)
August 18, 2021 · The House of Rothschild
- #197
Founder of the Rothschild Family Dynasty
August 11, 2021 · Founder
- #196
Winston Churchill (Leadership during WW2)
August 7, 2021 · The Splendid and the Vile
- #195
Sid Meier (Computer game designer)
July 31, 2021 · Sid Meier’s Memoir!
- #194
Ernest Hemingway (Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy)
July 27, 2021 · Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy
- #193
Arnold Schwarzenegger (Arnold’s first autobiography)
July 22, 2021 · Arnold
- #192
Jim Casey (Founder of UPS)
July 19, 2021 · Big Brown
- #191
Naval Ravikant (A Guide to Wealth and Happiness)
July 13, 2021 · The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
- #190
Henry Ford and Thomas Edison
July 10, 2021 · The Vagabonds
- #189
David Ogilvy (The book I’ve given as a gift the most)
July 5, 2021 · The Unpublished David Ogilvy
- #188
Joe Coulombe (Founder of Trader Joes)
June 28, 2021 · Becoming Trader Joe
- #187
Albert Einstein
June 22, 2021 · Einstein
- #186
Phil Knight (Nike)
June 16, 2021 · Shoe Dog
- #185
César Ritz and Auguste Escoffier (The Hotelier and The Chef)
June 10, 2021 · Ritz and Escoffier
- #184
Isadore Sharp (Four Seasons)
June 6, 2021 · Four Seasons
- #183
Johnny Carson
June 4, 2021 · Johnny Carson
- #182
Warren Buffett (The Making of an American Capitalist)
May 29, 2021 · Buffett
- #181
Paul Orfalea (Kinkos)
May 23, 2021 · Copy This!
- #180
Jeff Bezos (Invention of a Global Empire)
May 17, 2021 · Amazon Unbound
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Jeff Bezos (Insights, Stories, and Secrets)
May 13, 2021 · Working Backwards
- #179
Jeff Bezos
May 10, 2021 · The Everything Store
- #178
Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products
May 3, 2021 · Jony Ive
- #177
Robert Campeau (Junk Bonds and Retail Bankruptcy)
April 26, 2021 · Going for Broke
- #176
Linus Torvalds (Creator of Linux)
April 18, 2021 · Just for Fun
- #175
Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey
April 11, 2021 · The River of Doubt
- #174
Bill Gates (Overdrive)
April 5, 2021 · Overdrive
- #173
Louis B. Mayer (MGM Studios)
March 28, 2021 · Hollywood Rajah
- #172
Elon Musk (Early Days of SpaceX)
March 21, 2021 · Liftoff
- #171
Chuck Feeney (The Billionaire who gave all of his money away)
March 15, 2021 · The Billionaire Who Wasn’t
- #170
Claude Hopkins (A Life in Advertising)
March 8, 2021 · My Life in Advertising
- #169
David Ogilvy (The King of Madison Avenue)
March 1, 2021 · The King of Madison Avenue
- #168
Larry Miller (Driven: An Autobiography)
February 21, 2021 · Driven
- #167
Jackie Cochran (Aviation)
February 19, 2021 · Jackie Cochran
- #166
Robert Noyce (Intel)
February 8, 2021 · The Man Behind the Microchip
- #165
William Shockley (Creator of the Electronic Age)
February 1, 2021 · Broken Genius
- #164
Robert Goddard (Rocket Man)
January 25, 2021 · Rocket Man
- #163
Alfred Nobel
January 18, 2021 · Alfred Nobel
- #162
Chuck Yeager
January 11, 2021 · Yeager
- #161
Dr. Seuss
January 4, 2021 · Becoming Dr. Seuss
2020
- #160
Peter Cundill
December 28, 2020 · Routines and Orgies
- #159
Andy Grove (Intel)
December 21, 2020 · Swimming Across
- #158
Walt Disney (Disneyland)
December 14, 2020 · Disney’s Land
- #157
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
December 7, 2020 · The Innovators
- #156
Theodore Roosevelt
November 30, 2020 · Mornings on Horseback
- #155
Jeff Bezos (Shareholder Letters and Speeches)
November 23, 2020 · Invent and Wander
- #154
Charles Schulz (Charlie Brown)
November 19, 2020 · My Life with Charlie Brown
- #153
Bill Bowerman (Nike)
November 12, 2020 · Bowerman and the Men of Oregon
- #152
Katherine Graham (Washington Post)
November 5, 2020 · Personal History
- #151
Frederick Smith (FedEx)
October 29, 2020 · Overnight Success
- #150
Sam Walton (America’s Richest Man)
October 24, 2020 · Sam Walton
- #149
The Big Rich (Oil Billionaires)
October 18, 2020 · The Big Rich
- #148
John D. Rockefeller (Autobiography)
October 11, 2020 · Random Reminiscences of Men and Events
- #147
Sam Colt
October 5, 2020 · Revolver
- #146
Milton Hershey (Chocolate)
September 27, 2020 · Hershey
- #145
William Randolph Hearst
September 20, 2020 · The Chief
- #144
Ernest Shackleton
September 13, 2020 · Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage
- #143
Alfred Lee Loomis (the most interesting man you’ve never heard of)
September 6, 2020 · Tuxedo Park
- #142
Teddy Roosevelt and J.P. Morgan
August 30, 2020 · The Hour of Fate
- #141
Arnold Schwarzenegger (My Unbelievably True Life Story)
August 23, 2020 · Total Recall
- #140
Bill Gates (the Making of the Microsoft Empire)
August 16, 2020 · Hard Drive
- #139
J.P. Morgan
August 9, 2020 · The House of Morgan
- #138
Alexander Graham Bell
August 2, 2020 · Reluctant Genius
- #137
P.T. Barnum
July 26, 2020 · Barnum
- #136
Estée Lauder
July 18, 2020 · A Success Story
- #135
Joseph Pulitzer (Politics & Media)
July 12, 2020 · Pulitzer
- #134
Edwin Land (Polaroid vs Kodak)
July 1, 2020 · A Triumph of Genius
- #133
Edwin Land (Polaroid and The Man Who Invented It)
June 25, 2020 · Land’s Polaroid
- #132
Edwin Land (Steve Jobs’s Hero)
June 20, 2020 · The Instant Image
- #131
Robert Friedland (Billionaire Miner)
June 14, 2020 · The Big Score
- #130
Walter Chrysler
June 9, 2020 · Life of an American Workman
- #129
Felix Dennis (How to Get Rich)
June 4, 2020 · How to Get Rich
- #128
Henry Leland (Cadillac)
May 31, 2020 · Master of Precision: Henry Leland
- #127
Larry Ellison (Oracle)
May 25, 2020 · The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison
- #126
Larry Ellison (The Billionaire and the Mechanic)
May 20, 2020 · The Billionaire and the Mechanic
- #125
Charles Kettering (inventor, engineer, founder)
May 15, 2020 · Professional Amateur
- #124
Larry Ellison and Oracle
May 9, 2020 · Softwar
- #123
Albert Champion (Record-Setting Racer to Dashing Tycoon)
May 1, 2020 · The Fast Times of Albert Champion
- #122
Alfred Sloan (General Motors)
April 26, 2020 · My Years with General Motors
- #121
Billy Durant and Alfred Sloan (General Motors)
April 19, 2020 · Billy, Alfred, and General Motors
- #120
Billy Durant (Creator of General Motors)
April 11, 2020 · Billy Durant Creator of General Motors
- #119
The Dodge Brothers
April 5, 2020 · The Dodge Brothers
- #118
Forty Years With Henry Ford
March 31, 2020 · My Forty Years with Ford
- #117
Chung Ju-yung founder of Hyundai (the most inspiring autobiography I’ve read)
March 26, 2020 · Born of This Land
- #116
Sam Bronfman (Seagram’s and the Bronfman family dynasty)
March 21, 2020 · Samuel Bronfman
- #115
Ben Franklin: An American Life
March 16, 2020 · Benjamin Franklin
- #114
The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time
March 9, 2020 · The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King
- #113
A.G. Gaston (Black Titan and the Making of a Black American Millionaire)
March 5, 2020 · Black Titan
- #112
Frank Lloyd Wright
February 24, 2020 · Plagued by Fire
- #111
David Geffen
February 16, 2020 · The Operator
- #110
Henry Singleton (Teledyne)
February 10, 2020 · Distant Force
- #109
Adi Dassler (Adidas)
February 3, 2020 · Sneaker Wars
- #108
Jim Simons (Money Printer)
January 26, 2020 · The Man Who Solved the Market
- #107
Sol Price (Costco)
January 20, 2020 · Sol Price
- #106
Bill Walsh (The Score Takes Care of Itself)
January 12, 2020 · The Score Takes Care of Itself
- #105
Les Schwab (Charlie Munger recommended this book)
January 5, 2020 · Les Schwab: Pride in Performance
2019
- #104
Ingvar Kamprad (IKEA)
December 30, 2019 · Leading by Design
- #103
Hetty Green (The Richest Woman in America)
December 22, 2019 · The Richest Woman in America
- #102
Akio Morita (Sony)
December 15, 2019 · Made in Japan
- #101
Warren Buffett (The Tao of Warren Buffett)
December 8, 2019 · The Tao of Warren Buffett
- #100
Warren Buffett (The Snowball)
December 1, 2019 · The Snowball
- #99
Carroll Shelby (My name is Carroll Shelby and performance is my business)
November 24, 2019 · Carroll Shelby
- #98
Enzo Ferrari (the making of an automobile empire)
November 18, 2019 · Enzo Ferrari
- #97
Enzo Ferrari (Ferrari vs Ford)
November 10, 2019 · Go Like Hell
- #96
James J. Hill (Empire Builder of the Northwest)
November 4, 2019 · James J. Hill
- #95
Claude Shannon
October 27, 2019 · A Mind at Play
- #94
Henry Singleton (The Outsiders)
October 20, 2019 · The Outsiders
- #93
Ed Thorp (A Man for All Markets)
October 13, 2019 · A Man for All Markets
- #92
Ed Thorp and Claude Shannon
October 7, 2019 · Fortune’s Formula
- #91
Jim Clayton (Sold to Warren Buffett)
September 29, 2019 · First a Dream
- #90
Charlie Munger (Poor Charlie’s Almanack)
September 22, 2019 · Poor Charlie’s Almanack
- #89
David Ogilvy (Confessions of an Advertising Man)
September 15, 2019 · Confessions of an Advertising Man
- #88
Warren Buffett’s Shareholder Letters— All of them!
September 8, 2019 · Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders
- #87
Thomas Watson (IBM)
September 1, 2019 · The Maverick and His Machine
- #86
Carl Bosch and Fritz Haber (A Genius and a Doomed Tycoon)
August 25, 2019 · The Alchemy of Air
- #85
Walter and Olive Ann Beech (Aviation Legends)
August 18, 2019 · The Barnstormer and the Lady
- #84
Aristotle Onassis
August 11, 2019 · Onassis
- #83
Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, George Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
August 4, 2019 · Empires of Light
- #82
David Ogilvy (Ogilvy on Advertising)
July 28, 2019 · Ogilvy on Advertising
- #81
Henry Royce (Founder of Rolls-Royce)
July 22, 2019 · Rolls-Royce
- #80
Henry Ford (Today and Tomorrow)
July 14, 2019 · Today and Tomorrow
- #79
Charlie Munger (The Complete Investor)
July 7, 2019 · Charlie Munger
- #78
Charlie Munger (the Tao of Charlie Munger)
June 30, 2019 · The Tao of Charlie Munger
- #77
Steve Jobs (The NeXT Years)
June 23, 2019 · Steve Jobs & the NeXT Big Thing
- #76
Steve Jobs: The Early Years of Apple
June 16, 2019 · Return to the Little Kingdom
- #75
Henry Clay Frick: Andrew Carnegie’s Partner
June 9, 2019 · Henry Clay Frick
- #74
The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
June 2, 2019 · The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
- #73
Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick: The Bitter Partnership That Changed America
May 26, 2019 · Meet You in Hell
- #72
Stan Lee: Founder of Marvel
May 19, 2019 · Excelsior! The Amazing Life of Stan Lee
- #71
Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters
May 12, 2019
- #70
Mark Spitznagel: The Dao of Capital
May 6, 2019 · The Dao of Capital
- #69
Charles Goodyear: An Inventor’s Obsession and the Struggle for a Rubber Monopoly
April 28, 2019 · The Goodyear Story
- #68
Daniel Ludwig: The Invisible Billionaire
April 21, 2019 · The Invisible Billionaire: Daniel Ludwig
- #67
Conrad Hilton: Hilton Hotel Dynasty
April 14, 2019 · The Hiltons
- #66
Henry Kaiser: Builder in the Modern American West
April 7, 2019 · Henry J. Kaiser
- #65
Kirk Kerkorian: Penniless Dropout became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History
March 31, 2019 · The Gambler
- #64
Coco Chanel: Her Life and Secrets
March 24, 2019 · Coco Chanel
- #63
The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich
March 10, 2019 · The King of Oil
- #62
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
March 4, 2019 · The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- #61
Malcom McLean: The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
February 25, 2019 · The Box
- #60
Yvon Chouinard: What We’ve Learned from Patagonia’s First 40 Years
February 18, 2019 · The Responsible Company
- #59
Howard Hughes: The Definitive Biography of the First American Billionaire
February 11, 2019 · Hughes
- #58
John Bogle: Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life
February 4, 2019 · Enough
- #57
John Bogle: Stay the Course: The Story of Vanguard and the Index Revolution
January 28, 2019 · Stay the Course
- #56
The Biography of Herb Kelleher
January 22, 2019 · Nuts!
- #55
Tycoon’s War: How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America’s Most Famous Military Adventurer
January 14, 2019 · Tycoon’s War
- #54
The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
January 8, 2019 · The First Tycoon
- #53
Who Is Michael Ovitz?
January 1, 2019 · Who Is Michael Ovitz?
2018
- #52
The Republic of Tea: The Story of the Creation of a Business, as Told Through the Personal Letters of Its Founders
December 25, 2018 · The Republic of Tea
- #51
Wild Company: The Untold Story of Banana Republic
December 17, 2018 · Wild Company
- #50
Marc Andreessen’s Blog Archive
December 11, 2018 · The Pmarca Blog Archive Ebook
- #49
Screw It, Let’s Do It: Lessons in Life by Richard Branson
December 3, 2018 · Screw It, Let’s Do It
- #48
Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography by Richard Branson
November 26, 2018 · Finding My Virginity
- #47
Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way
November 19, 2018 · Losing My Virginity
- #46
I Love Capitalism: An American Story
November 13, 2018 · I Love Capitalism
- #45
Built From Scratch: How A Couple of Regular Guys Grew The Home Depot from Nothing to $30 Billion
November 5, 2018 · Built from Scratch
- #44
A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft
October 30, 2018 · Idea Man
- #43
Ray Dalio: Principles: Life and Work
October 22, 2018 · Principles: Life and Work
- #42
One From Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization
October 16, 2018 · One from Many
- #41
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
October 8, 2018 · The Hard Thing About Hard Things
- #40
Insisting On The Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land and Instant: The Story of Polaroid
October 2, 2018 · Instant, Insisting on the Impossible
- #39
Walt Disney: An American Original
September 24, 2018 · Walt Disney
- #38
The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
September 17, 2018 · The Space Barons
- #37
The Fish That Ate The Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King
September 9, 2018 · The Fish That Ate the Whale
- #36
Finding The Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Keep, and Nurture Talent
September 3, 2018 · Finding the Next Steve Jobs
- #35
George Lucas: A Life
August 26, 2018 · George Lucas
- #34
Creativity Inc: The Autobiography of the founder of Pixar
August 20, 2018 · Creativity, Inc.
- #33
Levi Strauss: The Man Who Gave Blue Jeans to the World
August 12, 2018 · Levi Strauss
- #32
Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built
August 9, 2018 · Alibaba
- #31
Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue and Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
August 2, 2018 · Zero to One, Conspiracy
- #30
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
July 9, 2018 · Elon Musk
- #29
The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company
July 2, 2018 · The HP Way
- #28
The Wright Brothers
June 25, 2018 · The Wright Brothers
- #27
A Truck Full of Money: Coding, Mania, Love, Genius: The Life of an American Entrepreneur
June 15, 2018 · A Truck Full of Money
- #26
My Life and Work: The Autobiography of Henry Ford
May 2, 2018 · My Life and Work
- #25
Against the Odds: An Autobiography by James Dyson
April 22, 2018 · Against the Odds
- #24
No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet
April 15, 2018 · No Better Time
- #23
The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
April 7, 2018 · The New New Thing
- #22
How To Turn Down A Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story
March 20, 2018 · How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars
- #21
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
March 1, 2018 · Masters of Doom
- #20
Danny Meyer (The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business)
February 6, 2018 · Setting the Table
- #19
Becoming Steve Jobs
January 19, 2018 · Becoming Steve Jobs
- #18
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
January 8, 2018 · Let My People Go Surfing
- #17
Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
January 1, 2018 · The Everything Store
2017
- #16
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller
December 8, 2017 · Titan
- #15
Leonardo da Vinci: The Biography
November 17, 2017 · Leonardo da Vinci
- #14
The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal
September 17, 2017 · The Accidental Billionaires
- #13
Elon Musk and Why SpaceX Will Colonize Mars
August 27, 2017 · The Elon Musk Blog Series
- #12
Elon Musk & How Tesla Will Change The World
August 20, 2017 · How Tesla Will Change the World
- #11
The Cook & The Chef: Elon Musk’s Secret Sauce
August 13, 2017 · The Elon Musk Blog Series
- #10
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
July 27, 2017 · Shoe Dog
- #9
I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford
July 10, 2017 · I Invented the Modern Age
- #8
The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World’s Most Important Company
June 20, 2017 · The Intel Trinity
- #7
Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald’s
May 27, 2017 · Grinding It Out
- #6
Sam Walton
May 14, 2017 · Sam Walton: Made in America
- #5
Steve Jobs
April 30, 2017 · Steve Jobs
- #4
The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy
April 19, 2017 · The Patriarch
- #3
The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Edison Invented The Modern the Modern World
March 24, 2017 · The Wizard of Menlo Park
2016
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