The Founder Bookshelf
Books founders recommend to each other. Browse by topic or by where you are as you grow, mark what you've read, and add what's next.
10 books on Finance for growth & scaling
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When returns on capital outpace growth, wealth concentrates.
Piketty draws on centuries of data to analyze wealth and income inequality across Europe and the United States. His central thesis is that when the return on capital...
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How to find great growth companies and hold them.
Philip Fisher argues that the biggest investment gains come from buying outstanding growth companies and holding them for the long term. He introduces the scuttlebutt...
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What the evidence really says about our hardest economic problems.
Good Economics for Hard Times applies rigorous research to today's most contentious issues, including immigration, trade, inequality, automation, and growth. Banerjee...
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Read where you are in the cycle to tilt the odds.
Howard Marks explores the recurring cycles in economies, markets, and investor psychology, arguing that recognizing where you stand in a cycle improves your odds. He...
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A two-sided guide to playing the venture game and winning.
Jeffrey Bussgang draws on his experience as both founder and VC, plus interviews with entrepreneurs like Jack Dorsey and Reid Hoffman, to explain how the venture game...
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Fighting poverty by testing what actually works.
Poor Economics draws on years of randomized controlled trials to examine how the world's poor actually make decisions about health, education, savings, and risk....
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Take your profit first, then run the business on what is left.
Profit First flips the conventional accounting formula from Sales minus Expenses equals Profit to Sales minus Profit equals Expenses. Michalowicz lays out a behavioral...
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The definitive history of venture capital and the bets that built tech.
Drawing on unprecedented access to leading firms like Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, Accel, and Andreessen Horowitz, Sebastian Mallaby chronicles how venture capitalists...
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Pay yourself first and let savings compound.
Through a set of parables set in ancient Babylon, the book teaches timeless principles of personal finance such as saving at least a tenth of what you earn and putting...
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The founding text of free-market economics.
Smith's landmark treatise is the first comprehensive system of political economy, treating economics as a subject in its own right. He argues that the division of...
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