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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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The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer cover

81. The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer

by Charles J. Murray
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The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity cover

82. 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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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think cover

83. Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media cover

84. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
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Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity cover

85. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

by David Allen
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Java Concurrency in Practice cover

86. Java Concurrency in Practice

by Brian Goetz
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The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood cover

87. The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood

by James Gleick
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The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully cover

88. The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully

by Gerald M. Weinberg
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The Art of Electronics cover

89. The Art of Electronics

by Paul Horowitz, Winfield Hill
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Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions cover

90. Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions

by Gayle Laakmann McDowell
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Algorithms (4th Edition) cover

91. Algorithms (4th Edition)

by Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne
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Confronting Managerialism: How the Business Elite and Their Schools Threw Our Lives Out of Balance (Economic Controversies) cover

92. Confronting Managerialism: How the Business Elite and Their Schools Threw Our Lives Out of Balance (Economic Controversies)

by Robert R. Locke, J.-C. Spender
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The Art of Multiprocessor Programming cover

93. The Art of Multiprocessor Programming

by Maurice Herlihy, Nir Shavit, Victor Luchangco, Michael Spear
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Rise of the Warrior Cop cover

94. Rise of the Warrior Cop

by Radley Balko
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power cover

95. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

by Shoshana Zuboff
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How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life cover

96. How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

by Scott Adams
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Deep Learning (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series) cover

97. Deep Learning (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)

by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville
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Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations cover

98. Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
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The Elements of Computing Systems, second edition: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles cover

99. The Elements of Computing Systems, second edition: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles

by Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken
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Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition cover

100. Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition

by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler, Stephen R. Covey
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