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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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Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft cover

101. Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft

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The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition cover

102. The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition

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Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work cover

103. Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work

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The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition cover

104. The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition

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Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development cover

105. Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development

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Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story cover

106. Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story

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The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics cover

107. The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics

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Computer Organization and Design RISC-V Edition: The Hardware Software Interface (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design) cover

108. Computer Organization and Design RISC-V Edition: The Hardware Software Interface (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)

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The Martian's Daughter: A Memoir cover

109. The Martian's Daughter: A Memoir

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The Making of Prince of Persia: Journals 1985-1993 cover

110. The Making of Prince of Persia: Journals 1985-1993

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Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed cover

111. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed

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The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy cover

112. The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy

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The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition cover

113. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition

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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains cover

114. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

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Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration cover

115. Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration

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The Common Lisp Condition System: Beyond Exception Handling with Control Flow Mechanisms cover

116. The Common Lisp Condition System: Beyond Exception Handling with Control Flow Mechanisms

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How to Lie with Statistics cover

117. How to Lie with Statistics

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Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness cover

118. Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

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JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts cover

119. JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts

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Quantum Computing Since Democritus cover

120. Quantum Computing Since Democritus

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