Books recommended by Ben Horowitz
- The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (by Clayton M. Christensen).
Recommended by Aaron Levie , Ben Horowitz , Bill Gurley , Caterina Fake , Drew Houston , Ev Williams , Guy Kawasaki , Jeff Bezos , Marc Andreessen , Marc Benioff , Mark Cuban , Max Levchin , Michael Bloomberg , Steve Jobs , Tim O’Reilly , Blake Scholl , Chris Dixon , Steve Blank
- Who Is Michael Ovitz?: (by Michael Ovitz).
Recommended by Ben Horowitz , Gary Vaynerchuk , Jason Calacanis , Keith Rabois , Marc Andreessen
- The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses (by Eric Ries).
Recommended by Andrew Ng , Ben Horowitz , Dustin Moskovitz , Jason Calacanis , Kevin Systrom , Marc Andreessen , Mark Cuban , Mike Maples, Jr. , Tim O’Reilly , Chris Dixon , Raoul Pal , Sheryl Sandberg , Marty Cagan , Steve Blank
- The Startup Community Way: Evolving an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (by Brad Feld).
Recommended by Ben Horowitz
- High Output Management: (by Andrew S. Grove).
Recommended by Ben Horowitz , Brian Armstrong , Brian Chesky , Drew Houston , Keith Rabois , Larry Ellison , Marc Andreessen , Mark Zuckerberg , Ron Conway , Tobi Lütke , Balaji Srinivasan , Sahil Lavingia , John Doerr , Justin Kan
- Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making (by Tony Fadell).
Recommended by Ben Horowitz , Bill Gurley
- Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror (by Victor Sebestyen).
Recommended by Ben Horowitz , Marc Andreessen
- My American Journey: (by Colin Powell).
Recommended by Ben Horowitz
- My Years with General Motors: (by Alfred Sloan).
Recommended by Ben Horowitz
- The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (by C.L.R. James).
Recommended by Ben Horowitz , Christopher Hitchens
- Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison (by Shaka Senghor).
Recommended by Ben Horowitz
- Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem (by Daniel R. Day).
Recommended by Ben Horowitz
- Toussaint Louverture: A Revolutionary Life (by Philippe Girard).
Recommended by Ben Horowitz
- Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture (by Sudhir Hazareesingh).
Recommended by Ben Horowitz
- Swimming Across: A Memoir (by Andrew S. Grove).
Recommended by Ben Horowitz , Keith Rabois
- Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World: (by Jack Weatherford).
Recommended by Ben Horowitz , Daymond John , Lisa Ling , Tim Ferriss , Austen Allred
- Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (by Peter Thiel).
Recommended by Andrew Ng , Ben Horowitz , Bryan Johnson , Dustin Moskovitz , Elon Musk , Eric Weinstein , Keith Rabois , Kishore Biyani , Luis von Ahn , Marc Andreessen , Mark Zuckerberg , Matt Mullenweg , Max Levchin , Ryan Petersen , Sam Altman , Lee Stranahan , Nassim Taleb , Chris Dixon , Patrick O’Shaughnessy , Tom Bilyeu , Brian Dean , Rupert Murdoch
- Focus: The Future of Your Company Depends on It (by Al Ries).
Recommended by Ben Horowitz , Ev Williams , Michael Hyatt
- No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention (by Reed Hastings).
Recommended by Ben Horowitz , Jim Collins , Ray Dalio , Satya Nadella
- Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company (by Andrew S. Grove).
Recommended by Ben Horowitz , Bill Gates , Charlie Munger , Marc Andreessen , Steve Jobs , Vinod Khosla , Balaji Srinivasan , Jamie Dimon
- Skin in the Game: Incerto, Book 5 (by Nassim Taleb).
Recommended by Ben Horowitz , Keith Rabois , Marc Andreessen , Peter Mallouk , Ryan Shea , Vinod Khosla , Changpeng Zhao , Chris Dixon