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Mindset

** Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, by Daniel H. Pink 2011

** Reset: How to Change What's Not Working, by Dan Heath 2025

Strategy

** The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects, by Andrew Chen 2021

** Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant, by W. Chan Kim et al. 2014

Better, Simpler Strategy: A Value-Based Guide to Exceptional Performance, by Felix Oberholzer-Gee 2021

Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters, by Richard Rumelt 2011

Leadership

Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done, by Ram Charan et al. 2009

Startup

** The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses, by Eric Ries 2011

** The Startup Owner’s Manual, by Steve Blank et al. 2020

** Xiaoxmi Startup Thinking, by Lei Jun 2022

The PayPal Wars: Battles with Ebay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth (3rd ed), by Eric M. Jackson 2023

Big Tech

** Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism, by Sarah Wynn-Williams 2025

** Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World, by Parmy Olson 2024

Investing

** Gambling Man: The Secret Story of the World's Greatest Disruptor, Masayoshi Son, by Lionel Barber 2025

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