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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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Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture cover

21. Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

by David Kushner
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Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed cover

22. Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

by James C. Scott
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Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools cover

23. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools

by Alfred V. Aho
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C Interfaces and Implementations: Techniques for Creating Reusable Software cover

24. C Interfaces and Implementations: Techniques for Creating Reusable Software

by David R. Hanson
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - 2nd Edition (MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) cover

25. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - 2nd Edition (MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)

by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman
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21st Century C, 2nd Edition cover

26. 21st Century C, 2nd Edition

by Ben Klemens
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How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library) cover

27. How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library)

by George Polya
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Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design) cover

28. Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)

by John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson, Krste Asanović
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The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you cover

29. The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you

by Rob Fitzpatrick
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Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships (Nonviolent Communication Guides) cover

30. Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships (Nonviolent Communication Guides)

by Marshall B. Rosenberg
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The Linux Programming Interface: A Linux and UNIX System Programming Handbook cover

31. The Linux Programming Interface: A Linux and UNIX System Programming Handbook

by Michael Kerrisk
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The Pyramid Principle:Logic in Writing and Thinking cover

32. The Pyramid Principle:Logic in Writing and Thinking

by Barbara Minto
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The Soul of A New Machine cover

33. The Soul of A New Machine

by Tracy Kidder
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The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives cover

34. The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives

by Jesse Eisinger
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The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win cover

35. The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
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iOS and macOS Performance Tuning: Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, Objective-C, and Swift (Developer's Library) cover

36. iOS and macOS Performance Tuning: Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, Objective-C, and Swift (Developer's Library)

by Marcel Weiher
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Programming Rust, 2nd Edition cover

37. Programming Rust, 2nd Edition

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Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software cover

38. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides
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Programming Pearls (ACM Press) cover

39. Programming Pearls (ACM Press)

by Jon Louis Bentley
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No bullshit guide to linear algebra cover

40. No bullshit guide to linear algebra

by Ivan Savov
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