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How to Win Friends and Influence People
Business
Carnegie's 1936 manual on getting along with other humans, distilled into rules that have outlasted nearly every business book written since. Graham hands it to every YC founder because almost everything that goes wrong in a startup is, in the end, a people problem.
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Graham has repeatedly told YC founders to read Carnegie; the recommendation surfaces in his comments on Hacker News and in interviews where he names it as the one book every founder should read.
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“it should basically be required reading for founders”
Tan recommends Carnegie's book as a founder empathy and communication resource in his YC design talk.
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3 SOURCEs- news.ycombinator.com link
- Patrick Collison's Bookshelf reading list
- Design for Startups, Part 1 video
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