David Friedberg Recommended Books

"One of the best business biographies I have ever read." - Charlie Munger

"I found Rockefeller to be strangely stoic, incredibly resilient, and, despite his reputation as a robber baron, humble and compassionate." - Ryan Holiday

"[One of the] best books I read in 2017." - Anthony Pompliano

"The mindset required to do well in businesses when everything is in flux, competition is intense and setbacks are frequent." - Austen Allred

"I got about 500 pages in. It is detailed." - Jason Calacanis

"Fabolous." - Ray Dalio

LeBron James was seen reading this book.

"My Mom suggested I read it, and my teacher didn’t approve." - Tim Draper

Charles Koch recommended this book on his website.

Barack Obama's favorite books of 2018 list.

"Reveals incredible scientific breakthroughs about aging and ways we can slow down, or even reverse, the process." - Vinod Khosla

"Gives a host of compelling evidence to show there is no reason people born today cannot live to at least 120 in healthy condition, if not 150 and beyond." - Peter Diamandis

"Highly recommend [this book]." - Jason Fried

"Read [this book] or check out his podcast with the same name." - Blake Scholl

Ryan Shea recommended this book on his website.

"A great biography of Edison." - Marc Andreessen

"About the Chemicals industry." - Trung Phan

"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

"Goes into a lot of details about how money works (or doesn't)." - Changpeng Zhao

Mark Manson recommended this book on his website.

One of Max Levchin's answers to "what's your favourite business book you'd advise to young entrepreneurs?"

"For crypto traders." - Barry Silbert

"It was great to re-read this." - Shane Parrish

"My new favorite book of all time." - Bill Gates

Sam Harris picked this as the first book in his Book Club.

Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.

"It is the most optimistic book I’ve read in a long time." - Yuval Noah Harari

"We should be thrilled to be alive now." - A.J. Jacobs

"There are a few philosophical errors and poor arguments in [this] otherwise excellent book." - David Deutsch

"What an amazing individual." - Luis von Ahn

"One of those original thinkers who makes you say: More people should know about this guy’s work." - Bill Gates

"A brilliant new analysis of the origin of life, by the man who has himself done more than anybody to crack the problem." - Matt Ridley

"Incredible." - Chamath Palihapitiya

Patrick Bet-David recommended this book on his website.

Jack Ma always carries a copy of this book.

"It's excellent: exceptionally data-rich and comprehensive." - Patrick Collison

"[Looks] at Bell Labs, which was one of the most innovative labs in history." - Mark Zuckerberg

"The definitive history of America's greatest incubator of technological innovation." - Ron Conway

"Sets the context for the hardware inventions that directly led to Silicon Valley." - Patrick Collison