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.

2 books on Investing for growth & scaling

  1. The Richest Man in Babylon cover

    George S. Clason

    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...

  2. The Wealth of Nations cover

    Adam Smith

    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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