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The Fountainhead
Philosophy
An architect refuses to compromise his designs and pays for it in ways the establishment is unable to recognize as costs.
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“The Fountainhead was incredibly motivating to me. It encouraged me to think as an individual...”
Bookmarked.club cites a Favobooks listicle quoting Cuban on this book.
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“I do love the fountainhead”
From Fred Wilson's AVC.com post 'Books For Entrepreneurs' (2009).
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“As a kid, I wanted to be an architect. That's before I read The Fountainhead.”
The page cites a Smithsonian oral-history interview with Ellison.
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“He was a devotee of the writings of Ayn Rand, the author of a pair of novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, that gained a devoted following of conservatives and libertarians during the 1940s and 1960s.”
From Michael Moritz's memoir on Don Valentine, published as a public markdown gist. Moritz notes Rand 'rejected faith and religion in favor of fact and reason and was an ardent supporter of energetic capitalism.'
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Listed as one of Doug Leone's favorite books on the 20VC podcast page with Harry Stebbings, paired with Antifragile as the two formative books that built his resilience. The exact wording of his on-air remarks could not be verified, so the original transcript-style quote was dropped.
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5 SOURCEs- favobooks.com · 48 Mark Cuban.html reading list
- Fred Wilson — Books for Entrepreneurs blog post
- americanhistory.si.edu link
- gist.github.com reading list
- thetwentyminutevc.com · Doug Leone link
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