Reading List.
Books, essays, and long reads every serious builder should have gone through at least once. No business school fluff.
MUST READ — BOOKS
Zero to One — Peter Thiel
The most direct book on what it actually means to build something new. Required reading before you write your first pitch.
The Mom Test — Rob Fitzpatrick
How to talk to customers and validate ideas without getting lied to. The most practical startup book ever written.
The Hard Thing About Hard Things — Ben Horowitz
What running a company actually feels like. Not theory. Not frameworks. Real decisions with no good answers.
Founders at Work — Jessica Livingston
Interviews with founders of companies in their earliest days. What it looked like before it was obvious it would work.
ESSAYS & LONG READS
Do Things That Don't Scale — Paul Graham
The most important early stage startup advice ever written. Read it before you automate anything.
READ →Startup = Growth — Paul Graham
The clearest definition of what a startup actually is and why growth is the only metric that matters.
READ →The Pmarca Guide to Startups — Marc Andreessen
A series of posts on product/market fit, hiring, and building companies. Still the best writing on PMF.
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