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Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
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Long-form interviews with founders of Apple, PayPal, Hotmail, Lotus, Flickr and dozens more, capturing what actually happens in the first year of a startup. Graham wrote the introduction and treats it as the realest portrait of early-stage startup life ever printed.
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“This book can help fix that problem, by showing everyone what, till now, only a handful people got to see: what happens in the first year of a startup.”
From Graham's essay/introduction 'Learning from Founders,' written as the foreword to Jessica Livingston's book.
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“A bunch of really great interviews [Jessica] did with a bunch of just OGs of entrepreneurship. I am begging her to do a second book because the first one is just a must read.”
Recommended by Alexis Ohanian in his Tim Ferriss Show interview transcript.
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#18 on the all-time Hacker News books list.
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Listed in Chen's 'Ten classic books that define tech' essay on andrewchen.com.
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“I read "Founders at Work."”
Skates says the book's clear takeaway is that successful founders hit rational quit points and keep going.
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