The Bookshelf

Books founders recommend to each other.

Browse by topic or by where you are as you grow, mark what you have read, and add what is next.

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Topic

As you grow

1 book on Founder Memoirs for fundraising

  1. Chaos Monkeys cover

    A profane, insider tell-all of building, selling, and surviving Silicon Valley.

    A first-person account of the author's path from Goldman Sachs to founding the adtech startup AdGrok, raising money through Y Combinator, selling to Twitter, and then...

Questions, answered

What books do founders recommend?

Founders on the eChai network recommend titles like Chaos Monkeys. The bookshelf ranks books by how many founders have read them.

Where can I find a startup reading list?

The eChai founder bookshelf is a curated, founder-recommended reading list you can browse by topic (fundraising, product, hiring) and by stage.

How is the bookshelf ordered?

By recommendation: the more founders mark a book read, the higher it ranks. You can also sort by newest or A to Z.

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