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Top Business Books Recommended by Founders

The Top Entrepreneurs podcast has interviewed 900+ founders. Each CEO shares their favorite book. This list highlights the most popular.
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Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed cover

41. Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

by James C. Scott
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Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools cover

42. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools

by Alfred V. Aho
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21st Century C, 2nd Edition cover

43. 21st Century C, 2nd Edition

by Ben Klemens
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Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design) cover

44. Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)

by John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson, Krste Asanović
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The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys cover

45. The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys

by James Fadiman
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion cover

46. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

by Jonathan Haidt
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The Pyramid Principle:Logic in Writing and Thinking cover

47. The Pyramid Principle:Logic in Writing and Thinking

by Barbara Minto
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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains cover

48. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

by Nicholas Carr
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Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft cover

49. Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft

by G. Pascal Zachary
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Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain cover

50. Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

by John J. Ratey
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The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win cover

51. The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
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Programming Rust, 2nd Edition cover

52. Programming Rust, 2nd Edition

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The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation cover

53. The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

by Jon Gertner
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No bullshit guide to linear algebra cover

54. No bullshit guide to linear algebra

by Ivan Savov
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Fluent Python cover

55. Fluent Python

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The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers cover

56. The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers

by Tom Standage
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Programming Rust cover

57. Programming Rust

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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus cover

58. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

by Charles C. Mann
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Principles of Neural Science, Fifth Edition cover

59. Principles of Neural Science, Fifth Edition

by Eric R. Kandel
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The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics cover

60. The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics

by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
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