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

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

by Dava Sobel
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High Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic (Prentice Hall Modern Semiconductor Design) cover

102. High Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic (Prentice Hall Modern Semiconductor Design)

by Howard W. Johnson, Martin Graham
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Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell cover

103. Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell

by Simon Marlow
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Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency cover

104. Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency

by Tom DeMarco
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Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think cover

105. Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think

by Bryan Caplan
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Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition cover

106. 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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Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? cover

107. Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know?

by Philip E. Tetlock
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The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact cover

108. The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact

by Edmond Lau
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Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations cover

109. 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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Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP cover

110. Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP

by Francesco Cesarini, Steve Vinoski
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Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective cover

111. Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective

by Ha-Joon Chang
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The Elements of Computing Systems, second edition: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles cover

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

by Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken
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Perl Best Practices cover

113. Perl Best Practices

by Damian Conway
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The Gene: An Intimate History cover

114. The Gene: An Intimate History

by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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The Goal: 40th Anniversary Edition: A Process of Ongoing Improvement cover

115. The Goal: 40th Anniversary Edition: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

by Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox, David Whitford
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Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective cover

116. Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective

by Kenneth O. Stanley, Joel Lehman
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Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth cover

117. Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth

by Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares
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Loners cover

118. Loners

by Sula Wolff
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Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism cover

119. Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism

by Richard D. Wolff
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Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition: The Updated Version of the Insightful Guide on Bringing Cutting-Edge Products to the Mainstream (Collins Business Essentials) cover

120. Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition: The Updated Version of the Insightful Guide on Bringing Cutting-Edge Products to the Mainstream (Collins Business Essentials)

by Geoffrey A. Moore
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