Books Recommended by Eric Schmidt
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Secrets of Sand Hill Road
Venture Capital and How to Get It
Scott Kupor
Source: "As someone who’s helped a small company become a huge, valuable company, I know firsthand the power of the startup ecosystem and entrepreneurship. This book is the definitive book on navigating VC as part of that." - Eric Schmidt
Behind the Cloud
The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company-and Revolutionized an Industry
Marc Benioff
Source: "Salesforce.com and Google share a vision for how the cloud will revolutionize computing. Behind the Cloud gives us a rare glimpse at the development of one of the most important trends in business today." - Eric Schmidt
Power Up
How Smart Women Win in the New Economy
Magdalena Yesil
Source: "[The author] is a fearless entrepreneur who worked hard to help early online merchants get off the ground. Some of them went on to become giants, like Amazon." - Eric Schmidt
2 recommenders
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Why Violence Has Declined
Steven Pinker
Source: "When you finish [this book], which takes a long time, you conclude that the world is in a much, much better place than it has been in the past." - Eric Schmidt
Play Nice But Win
A CEO's Journey from Founder to Leader
Michael Dell
Source: "Tells you how to be successful and true to your values in this awe-inspiring narrative of what it takes." - Eric Schmidt
Blitzscaling
The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
Reid Hoffman
Source: "Paints the picture, with key case studies, of what it really takes to build a market-leading company." - Eric Schmidt
What It Takes
Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence
Stephen A. Schwarzman
Source: "Reveals how [the author] has achieved the rarest kind of leverage in multiple fields." - Eric Schmidt
2 recommenders
The Long Tail
Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More
Chris Anderson
Source: "[The insights in this book] continue to influence Google's strategic thinking in a profound way." - Eric Schmidt
3 recommenders
Blueprint
The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
Nicholas A. Christakis
Source: "It's a joy to read and it highlights ways to make our society better." - Eric Schmidt
3 recommenders
From Simi Valley to Silicon Valley
A Story of Hard Work, Serendipity, and Questing
Stephen Gillett
Source: "[The author] is a superstar, well worth reading." - Eric Schmidt
1 recommender
Accidental Presidents
Eight Men Who Changed America
Jared Cohen
Source: "A timely book that is highly relevant to today's politics." - Eric Schmidt
4 recommenders
The Coming Wave
Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
Mustafa Suleyman
Source: "Extraordinary... Utterly unmissable." - Eric Schmidt
12 books
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