Books recommended by Chris Dixon
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers (by Ben Horowitz).
Recommended by Andrew Ng , Drew Houston , Dustin Moskovitz , Kathryn Minshew , Keith Rabois , Larry Page , Luis von Ahn , Marc Andreessen , Mark Zuckerberg , Matt Mullenweg , Max Levchin , Peter Attia , Peter Thiel , Tim Ferriss , Andrew Wilkinson , Blake Scholl , Chris Dixon , Fred Wilson , Raoul Pal , Jodie Cook , Michael Dell , Marty Cagan
- Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet (by Matthew Lyon).
Recommended by Chris Dixon
- Bad for You: Exposing the War on Fun! (by Kevin C. Pyle).
Recommended by Chris Dixon
- How We Got to Now: (by Steven Johnson).
Recommended by Chris Dixon
- Farsighted: (by Steven Johnson).
Recommended by Chris Dixon
- How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone (by Brian McCullough).
Recommended by Balaji Srinivasan , Chris Dixon
- Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs (by Ken Kocienda).
Recommended by Keith Rabois , Chris Dixon
- High Growth Handbook: (by Elad Gil).
Recommended by Aaron Levie , Alexis Ohanian , Brian Armstrong , Kathryn Minshew , Keith Rabois , Max Levchin , Reid Hoffman , Ryan Petersen , Chris Dixon
- The Last Days of Night: A Novel (by Graham Moore).
Recommended by Mark Zuckerberg , Vinod Khosla , Chris Dixon
- 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 Making of the Atomic Bomb: (by Richard Rhodes).
Recommended by Lewis Cantley , Chris Dixon , Trung Phan
- Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers (by Geoffrey A. Moore).
Recommended by Aaron Levie , Andrew Ng , Bill Gurley , Drew Houston , Ev Williams , Guy Kawasaki , Ron Conway , Seth Godin , Changpeng Zhao , Chris Dixon
- 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
- Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World (by Jill Jonnes).
Recommended by Austen Allred , Chris Dixon , Trung Phan
- Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (by Erik Larson).
Recommended by Chris Dixon , Lloyd Blankfein , George R. R. Martin
- American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road (by Nick Bilton).
Recommended by Alexis Ohanian , Casey Neistat , Andrew Wilkinson , John Collison , Chris Dixon , Ankur Warikoo , Thomas Frank
- 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
- 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
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities: (by Jane Jacobs).
Recommended by Ramit Sethi , Sam Altman , Chris Dixon