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Top Business Books Recommended by Founders

The Top Entrepreneurs podcast has interviewed 900+ founders. Each CEO shares their favorite book. This list highlights the most popular.
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Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition cover

1. Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition

by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein
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Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship cover

2. Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

by Hugh Wiley Hitchcock
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Gödel's Proof cover

3. Gödel's Proof

by Ernest Nagel, James Roy Newman
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A Philosophy of Software Design cover

4. A Philosophy of Software Design

by John Ousterhout
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Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup (Volume 1) cover

5. Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup (Volume 1)

by Rob Walling
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The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity cover

6. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity

by Cooper, Alan
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time cover

7. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

by Dava Sobel
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Concepts of Modern Mathematics (Dover Books on Mathematics) cover

8. Concepts of Modern Mathematics (Dover Books on Mathematics)

by Ian Stewart
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Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-wesley Object Technology Series) cover

9. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-wesley Object Technology Series)

by Martin Fowler, Kent Beck
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A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language cover

10. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language

by Ted Gioia
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Discrete Mathematics with Applications cover

11. Discrete Mathematics with Applications

by Susanna S. Epp
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Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics) cover

12. Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics)

by Christopher M. Bishop
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Functional JavaScript cover

13. Functional JavaScript

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Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty cover

14. Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty

by Gerd Gigerenzer
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The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup (The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship) cover

15. The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup (The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship)

by Noam Wasserman
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Have Fun at Work cover

16. Have Fun at Work

by William L. Livingston
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Feedback Control for Computer Systems cover

17. Feedback Control for Computer Systems

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Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories cover

18. Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories

by Sjoerd Beugelsdijk, Steven Brakman, Harry Garretsen, Charles van Marrewijk
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Clojure Programming cover

19. Clojure Programming

by Chas Emerick. Brian Carper. Christophe Grand
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Algorithms cover

20. Algorithms

by Jeff Erickson
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