Books recommended by Balaji Srinivasan

Balaji Srinivasan's Recommended Reading For Founders


Balaji Srinivasan

Here is a list of book recommendations for founders. Enjoy!
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The Cold Start Problem

Useful for anyone trying to bootstrap a new community or network, which is virtually every founder these days.
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Indistractable

Nir Eyal's bestselling book tackles the problem of modern distraction by empowering us to break the bad habits at the root of the issue. He delves into the deeper psychology causing us to go off track, an ancient problem even Plato...
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Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital

This fundamental cycle in technology: people get really amped about a technology, then you try to actually do it, you find it’s actually hard, most people get demoralized and they quit.
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The Sovereign Individual

If you want to find startup ideas here’s the book. It came out in the late ’90s. It’s the most prescient thing in the world. With most bestsellers, you can distill 300 pages into a one-page summary. This book is the opposite. You can take...
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How Innovation Works

How tech founders always had to fight against the establishment, just like the present day.
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The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building

The preprint went viral on Hacker News a while back. Brian Armstrong and I used parts of this at Coinbase and Naval Ravikant has used this at several of his companies. We found it helpful!
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Only the Paranoid Survive

We’ve all read Grove. Only the paranoid survive.
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High Output Management

In this legendary business book and Silicon Valley staple, the former chairman and CEO (and employee number three) of Intel shares his perspective on how to build and run a company. The essential skill of creating and maintaining new...
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Where Is My Flying Car?

Just read it.
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