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Best Summary + PDF: The Everything Store, by Brad Stone (Jeff Bezos and Amazon)
Amazon is now the largest Internet retailer in the world, and Jeff Bezos recently became the wealthiest person in the world. Amazon increasingly penetrates our everyday life, from being the first stop...
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Summary + PDF: The Road Ahead, by Bill Gates
Want to predict what the next technological revolution will be (eg cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence, CRISPR, VR/AR), and how it will unfold? Want to envision the most valuable applications,...
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Best Book Summary + PDF: Shoe Dog, by Phil Knight
Shoe Dog is the story of how Nike was founded, written by Nike’s founder, Phil Knight. Nike is now a global brand – go pretty much anywhere in the world, and you’ll see someone wearing Nikes. But Shoe...
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PDF + Summary: Sam Walton, Made in America (Wal-Mart Founder)
Wal-Mart is the largest retailer on the planet. It had $500 billion in sales in 2017 - almost 3x the size of Amazon - and runs 12,000 stores worldwide.This retail titan began in 1945 with founder Sam...
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Best Summary + PDF: Originals, by Adam Grant
In our modern economy, innovation is prized socially and rewarded financially. But how do you generate good new ideas? How do you tell which ideas are good? And how do you execute to make them real?...
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Best Summary + PDF: Bad Blood, by John Carreyrou (Theranos’s Failure)
Founded in 2003 by 19-year old Stanford dropout Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos raised over $700 million in investment at a $9 billion valuation. It promised to run hundreds of common blood tests with just...
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Best Summary + PDF: Blitzscaling, by Reid Hoffman
Want to know the growth tactics that Uber, Facebook, and Airbnb used to reach massive valuations in record time? On the other hand, are you confused by companies that bleed billions of dollars and...
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The PayPal Wars (PayPal’s History): Summary + PDF
PayPal is now one of the world’s largest payment systems. Its early history was chaotic. Within just 4 years of its beginning in 1998, PayPal signed up millions of users, merged with Elon Musk’s...
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Why Startups Fail: 59+ Postmortems of Failed Companies
Remember how this company Birchbox was everywhere 3 years ago? And how today it’s...not? Turns out after raising $90 million at a peak valuation of $500 million, and after a few years of struggle, in...
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NPR’s How I Built This: What I Learned from 51+ Episodes
How I Built This is a popular NPR podcast featuring founders of world-class companies like Spanx, Southwest Airlines, and Starbucks. Each episode covers one founder’s story at a high level - how they...
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