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The Mythical Man-Month
Technology
Brooks's 1975 essays on why adding programmers to a late software project makes it later, and why small, autonomous teams beat large committees. The intellectual scaffolding for Bezos's two-pizza team rule and Amazon's decomposition of the company into independent service-owning groups.
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Jeff Bezos
Farnam Street identifies Brooks's essays as the intellectual basis for Amazon's two-pizza team rule and the decentralized, service-owning org structure Bezos built.
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Larry Ellison
Sourced to Tim Ferriss's 'Tribe of Mentors,' where Benioff recounts Ellison keeping ~40 copies and giving it to every Oracle software exec.
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Paul Graham
Listed among Paul Graham's recommended books on Read This Twice.
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Marc Benioff
“Had a huge impact on me.”
Benioff cited the software engineering classic as influential on his thinking.