Books recommended by Drew Houston from tim.blog

Andrew S. Grove

“Probably my two favorites are High Output Management by Andy Grove... it just breaks down all the mechanics of, okay, how do you run a team?”

Peter F. Drucker

“The second is The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker, and the central core of that book is really about it's very easy to mistake effort for effectiveness.”

Clayton M. Christensen

“The first one is Innovator's Dilemma by Clay Christensen. It's a book about how businesses get disrupted, and a lot of those themes are why startups can succeed.”

Geoffrey A. Moore

“And then there's a book called Crossing the Chasm, which is another classic. It's a book on marketing, technology in marketing... how do technology products make their way from early adopters to the mainstream.”

Ben Horowitz

“A favorite book that's more about the experience of running a company is Ben Horowitz's book, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, which kind of just shows you kind of a mess and adventure.”

Charlie Munger

“Poor Charlie's Almanac is a great example of that... how do you build enough of a latticework... so that you know which ones to apply when?”

Robert M. Pirsig

“You have this whole rational world, which can explain a bunch of stuff, but then you have the whole aesthetic world, which can't be boiled down to a formula.”

Ray Dalio

“Maybe one more, so, Principles by Ray Dalio... he sketched really concise and good thoughts for like, all right, how do you approach life?”

Daniel Goleman

“I stumbled across a book, Emotional Intelligence, by Daniel Goleman, and I was like, oh my god... it spelled out something that I just didn't know you could kind of break down in a logical way.”

Roger Fisher

“There's a book called Getting to Yes, which is about principled negotiation, and I still think about and apply a lot of those concepts today.”

Jay Conrad Levinson

“There's a concept from a book that I had read on that roof called Guerilla Marketing, which is like how do you get attention and users for your product if you have no [money]?”