Ryan Petersen Recommended Books

Paul Graham's answer to "what’s the most beautiful book you’ve ever read?"

"A remarkable book." - Daniel Pink

"About Bill Bradley." - Jim Collins

"A super quick read filled with very actionable advice for CEOs and managers." - Ryan Hoover

"A really great book." - Alexis Ohanian

"[Brian Armstrong] and I used parts of this at Coinbase." - Balaji Srinivasan

"Never thought I'd say this, but [this book] is actually really good." - Andrew Wilkinson

"Incredible." - Marc Benioff

"So interesting." - Lewis Howes

"If you want the chance to turn your startup into the next Google or Twitter, then read this trenchant guide from someone who played key roles in the growth of these companies." - Reid Hoffman

"A great book." - Keith Rabois

"Jam-packs every useful lesson about building and scaling companies into a single, digestible book." - Aaron Levie

"Truly amazing for founders, especially once you start to scale. Wish I'd had it early days at The Muse." - Kathryn Minshew

"[The author]'s advice has been key for Coinbase as we go through hypergrowth, from hiring executives to improving M&A." - Brian Armstrong

"[The author] has no-nonsense, highly applicable advice to any operator transitioning a company from the proverbial garage to the next stage and beyond." - Max Levchin

"Gold from the Americas did flood Europe in the 1500s, which helped cause inflation." - Balaji Srinivasan

"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

"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

"There are few books that better encapsulate the inner workings of economics than this one." - Changpeng Zhao

Peter Schiff recommended this book on his website.

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

Jocko Willink covered this book in "Jocko Podcast" Ep. 23

"To learn that the act of killing fellow humans can be raised to an art." - Neil deGrasse Tyson

"Served me well. [...] Advocates keeping one’s cool at all times." - Marc Benioff

"After meeting Mark Zuckerberg, [Evan Spiegel] immediately bought every [Snapchat] employee a copy of 'The Art Of War'." - Business Insider

"Another [book] I have to mention." - Dave Camarillo

"It became [Travis Kalanick's bible]." - Mike Isaac

On Jamie Dimon's list of favorite books.

"Bad title for a very interesting (if somewhat dated) book." - Patrick O'Shaughnessy

"A fantastic book [...] that was great inspiration to me." - DHH

"The basis for how we've grown AppSumo over the years. " - Noah Kagan

"It was [this book] that really gave me the extra boost to courage to run 37signals/Basecamp our way." - Jason Fried

"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

"Addresses some of the counterintuitive points in life and business in a very interesting way." - Changpeng Zhao

"Gives an overview of entrepreneurship and innovation." - Andrew Ng

"I learned a lot reading it." - Ben Horowitz

"A must read." - Bryan Johnson

Chris Dixon recommended this book on Twitter.

Dustin Moskovitz recommended this book during a Stanford lecture in 2014.

"[This author] has built multiple breakthrough companies, and [this book] shows how." - Elon Musk

Keith Rabois recommended this book on a Medium blog post.

"At Spotify the 7 Powers are widely used as we discuss new initiatives." - Daniel Ek

"Deeply incisive." - Patrick Collison

"[The author] understands that strategy starts with invention. He can't tell you what to invent, but he can and does show what it takes for a new invention to become a valuable business." - Peter Thiel

"The forces of competition are just incredibly strong. Everyone is trying to eat your lunch, and if you don't read [this book] you're going to die alot sooner." - Reed Hastings

"I obviously recommend, first and foremost, [this book]. Considered to be the 'Bible of Value Investing.'" - Warren Buffett

"The single biggest influence on how I buy and sell stocks." - DJ Vlad

"The foundation for investing." - Kevin Rose

"A phenomenal book." - Peter Mallouk

"I found it fascinating." - Bill Ackman

On Jamie Dimon's list of favorite books.