Changpeng Zhao Recommended Books

"I vote for [this book (as best business book of all time)]." - Graham Duncan

"Buy this book. I loved it. It’s full of great insights." - Matt Ridley

"Wonderfully applicable to about everything in life. Furthermore, it is funny as hell." - Nassim Taleb

"[Part of] my biz book canon." - Ryan Petersen

"Few books have made me think more than this one over the last decade." - Ev Williams

"A very good book." - James Altucher

"The general concept is applicable to many fields beyond biology, for instance finance, economics and monetary policy." - Vlad Tenev

"It's so wonderful when books create the language that you need to better reason about the world. [This book] did that as well." - Tobi Lütke

"This book will have you asking yourself many provocative and useful questions." - Patrick O'Shaughnessy

"Changed how I see the world." - Shane Parrish

"The case studies you’re about to explore and the tools you’re about to gain have never been more relevant. This is an ideal moment to be reading this book." - Bill Gates

"An insightful book on how to scale at a very fast pace​ and more importantly WHEN." - Vinod Khosla

"Shares some of the key secrets for building mission-oriented, global businesses at speed." - Brian Chesky

"Have been waiting for it to come out so that I can recommend it to everyone." - Sam Altman

"Paints the picture, with key case studies, of what it really takes to build a market-leading company." - Eric Schmidt

"No brainer pick up for every entrepreneur and investor." - Anthony Pompliano

"For B2B, I recommend [this book]." - Andrew Ng

"It’s [about] how do technology products make their way from early adopters to the mainstream." - Drew Houston

"Helps us understand that it is a myth — an incorrect myth, a false myth — to believe that we can start with an idea for a few people and ride it from early adopter to early majority to late majority to laggard." - Seth Godin

"[One of] four good books that I would highly recommend reading if you're gonna build a B2B software company." - Aaron Levie

On the "books read" section of Ev Williams' GoodReads profile.

"Bestselling guide that created a new game plan for marketing in high-tech industries." - Ron Conway

"[The author looks] at a bunch of different cultures. Pixar, Navy SEALs, [etc...] And he’s looking for patterns among what makes people disproportionately effective as a culture." - Graham Duncan

Tony Robbins mentioned this book in an interview.

"Great book. Required reading." - Naval Ravikant

"[If you read this book and "Basic Economics"] you'll know more than all or your classmates combined about the basic workings of free markets and economics." - Ben Shapiro

Ryan Petersen mentioned this book on Twitter.

"If I am able to get my children to read only one economics text in their lifetime, God forbid, it would be [this book]." - Mark Spitznagel

Peter Schiff recommended this book on his website.

On Rand Paul's website's "reading suggestions for students" section.

Charles Koch recommended this book on his website.

"Great book." - Ron Paul

"A key to understanding why Silicon Valley culture is changing the world." - Vinod Khosla

Keith Rabois recommended this book on a Medium blog post.

"Enjoyed reading [this book]." - Brian Armstrong

"Not to be missed by anyone who wants to understand how ideas change the world." - Daniel Kahneman

"How to make your message memorable so it will spread." - Brian Armstrong

On the "books read" section of Ev Williams' GoodReads profile.

"Our marketing bible." - Andrew Wilkinson

Sahil Lavingia recommended this book on Notion.

"Discovers that in most fields , generalists, not specialists, are primed to excel. [...] Every high school and college student should read it." - Vinod Khosla

Keith Rabois mentioned this book on Twitter.

Most Recommended Books reached out to Daniel Pink directly.

"I think [the author's] ideas even help explain some of Microsoft's success." - Bill Gates

"The best book I have read [in 2019]." - Michael Mauboussin

"[One of] the best books I read [in 2019]." - Ryan Holiday

"It really puts in perspective how bizarre human beings are. It’s an awesome overview of our species." - Joe Rogan

"I would recommend this book to anyone interested in a fun, engaging look at early human history." - Bill Gates

"Best book I've read in [2015]." - Naval Ravikant

"Basically one of the things we've created here is we've imagined ideas that we all share." - Lex Fridman

"A big history narrative of human civilization." - Mark Zuckerberg

One of Peter Attia's answers to "any books you feel would make your reading list?"

"Skin in the game as conflict of interest, or as attaching one's livelihood to one's speech? Who to listen to, and why." - Marc Andreessen

"A book about the dynamics of how large-scale, highly random systems behave." - Ben Horowitz

Peter Mallouk mentioned this book on Twitter.

"Quite powerful, albeit often redundant." - Keith Rabois

"I like his ideas a lot, especially in Antifragile and the first half of this book. I've always complained about pundits relative to doers." - Vinod Khosla

"This was up there with Black Swan and [the author's] other classics." - Chris Dixon

On the "books read" section of Ev Williams' GoodReads profile.

"Good read." - Alexis Ohanian

"Great book [on Uber]." - Kara Swisher

"Has been huge. I’m still giving [this book] out." - Doug McMillon

"A really clever, smart book about how to organize businesses and enterprises for today’s world." - M. Sanjayan

"Many valuable ideas about building and sustaining a great work environment." - Michael Mauboussin

John Doerr recommended this book at the end of "Measure What Matters."

"This may well be the most important book of the year if not the decade." - Arianna Huffington

"Leaves us with an improved perspective for thinking about very vexing issues such as the state of America versus China." - Jamie Dimon

"Shows us how history can provide a template to help guide how we might think about what comes next." - Mark Cuban

"The fascinating thing about [this book] is there's philosophy, there's wisdom, but there's plots." - Lex Fridman

"It is my #1, #2, and #3 book recommendations of 2021." - David Friedberg

Mark Manson recommended this book on his website.

"A fundamental outline as to how to be successful... Highly recommended read." - Ashton Kutcher

"Will shatter your assumptions about how the world works and keep your brain firing for weeks after you’ve turned the last page." - Daniel Pink

"Givers in the workplace change everybody." - Krista Tippett

"As brilliant as it is wise, this is not just a book—it’s a new and shining worldview." - Susan Cain

"Good guy. Good book." - Simon Sinek

"A milestone! Well-researched, generous, actionable and important." - Seth Godin