A collection of books I've read and found interesting. Some of these have significantly influenced my thinking and approach to startups, business, and life in general.
2025
Originals How Non-Conformists Move the World
The Anthology of Balaji By Eric Jorgenson
Our future is biotech By Andrew Craige
Spent Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior
AI 2041 10 visions for our future
The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect By Roger Williams
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing By Al Ries and Jack Trout
Founder Brand Turn Your Story Into Your Competitive Advantage
Poor Charlie's Almanack The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman Adventures of a Curious Character
Book of Clarity By Paras Chopra
Working in Public The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
What Life Should Mean To You By Alfred Adler
Scaling Laws An Oral History of AI, 2019 - 2025
Man's Search for Meaning The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust
Life 3.0 Being Human in the age of Artificial Intelligence
Born of this land My Life Story
The Technological Republic Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West
Where Good Ideas Come From The Natural History of Innovation
Genesis:Artificial Intelligence Hope and the Human Spirit
The Cold Start Problem How to solve and scale network
The 5 types of Wealth
Discipline is Destiny The Power of Self-Control
On Writing WellThe Classic Guide to Writing Non-Fiction
Be Unique The Flipkart Way Unravelling Unprecedented Corporate Entrepreneurship
Zero to One Notes on Startups or How to Build the Future
Thinking in Bets Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
The Worlds I See Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
2024
The NVIDIA Way How AI Computing Company Became the Most Valuable Chip Company
Growth Hacking Silicon Valley's Best Kept Secret
Khanmigo Learning in the Age of AI
The Mom Test How to Talk to Customers & Learn if Your Business is a Good Idea
The Lean Startup How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
Chip War The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
Invent & Wander The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos
Prisoners of Geography Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
AI SuperpowersAI, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
AI 2041 Ten Visions for Our Future
The Money Trap A Practical Guide to Financial Success
How the Internet Happened From Netscape to the iPhone
Pattern Breakers The Untold Story of India's Unicorns
Never Enough From Barista to Billionaire
Buy Then Build How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game
The Earnicorns Stores of Rare Profitable Unicorns
It Happened in India The Story of Pantaloons, Big Bazaar, Central and the Great Indian Consumer
2023
Loonshots How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
The Cold Start Problem How to Start and Scale Network Effects
Attention Factory The Story of TikTok and China's ByteDance
The Xiaomi Way Customer Engagement Strategies That Built One of the Largest Smartphone Companies in the World
The Four Steps to the Epiphany Successful Strategies for Products that Win
Founders at Work Stories of Startups' Early Days
Continuous Discovery Habits Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value
Principles Life and Work
Influence Empire The Story of Tencent and China's Tech Ambition
The Anthology of Balaji A Guide to Technology, Truth, and Building the Future
Atomic Habits An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
2022
Traction How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth
No Filter The Inside Story of Instagram
Glucose Revolution The Life-Changing Power of Balancing Your Blood Sugar
2021
Lost and Founder A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World
The Dhandho Investor The Low-Risk Value Method to High Returns
The Infinite Machine How an Army of Crypto-Hackers Is Building the Next Internet with Ethereum
How to DeFi Advanced
2020
The Hard Thing About Hard Things Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind
The Alchemist A Fable About Following Your Dream
Trillion Dollar Coach The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell
Let's Talk Money You've Worked Hard for It, Now Make It Work for You
Fanatical Prospecting The Ultimate Guide to Opening Sales Conversations and Filling the Pipeline by Leveraging Social Selling, Telephone, Email, Text and Cold Calling
Objections The Ultimate Guide for Mastering The Art and Science of Getting Past No
Predictable Revenue Turn Your Business Into A Sales Machine With The $100 Million Best Practices Of Salesforce.com
Sales EQ How Ultra High Performers Leverage Sales-Specific Emotional Intelligence to Close the Complex Deal
Spin Selling How to Sell Anything to Anyone Using the New Science of Spin Selling
Zero to One Notes on startups, or how to build the future