Fred Wilson: "Chapter five in 'The Hard Thing About Hard Things' is possibly the best thing I’ve read about leading a tech company"

Peter Thiel: “Every management guide presumes that all great companies follow a formula. But successful startups don’t imitate; they build innovations that can’t be copied.

Ben Horowitz knows no recipe guarantees success. He has written the first true guide for protecting a startup from self-sabotage.”

Raoul Pal: "Without question, to me, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz is, by far, the best, most brutally honest and incredibly useful book about the realities of starting and running a company, ever written."

Tim Ferriss: "A great book"

Larry Page: "Ben's book is a great read - with uncomfortable truths about entrepreneurship and how to lead to a company.

It's also an inspiring story of a business rebirth through sheer willpower."

Andrew Wilkinson: "'The Hard Things About Hard Things' by Ben Horowitz is one of the best business books I've picked up in years."

Marc Andreessen mentioned 'The Hard Thing about Hard Things' on 'The Tim Ferriss Show' podcast.

Blake Scholl: "'The Hard Thing about Hard Things' is good."

One of Max Levchin's answers to 'What's your favourite business book you'd advise to young entrepreneurs?'

One of the books Keith Rabois recommends for entrepreneurs.

One of five business books Chris Dixon recommended on Twitter.

Nassim Taleb: "When a risk taker writes a book, read it. In the case of Peter Thiel, read it twice. Or, to be safe, three times. This is a classic.”

Elon Musk: “Peter Thiel has built multiple breakthrough companies, and Zero to One shows how.”

Mark Zuckerberg: “This book delivers completely new and refreshing ideas on how to create value in the world.”

Marc Andreessen: "Zero to One is the first book any working or aspiring entrepreneur must read—period."

Patrick O'Shaughnessy: "So much of investing is herd behavior, this will have you thinking different than the crowd."

Ben Horowitz: "Zero To One is a great book. I learned a lot reading it."

One of Max Levchin's answers to 'What's your favourite business book you'd advise to young entrepreneurs?'

One of the books Keith Rabois recommends for entrepreneurs.

One of five business books Chris Dixon recommended on Twitter.

This book was on Sam Altman's bookshelf.

Mark Cuban: "This helped me make sense of why things worked and didn't work in the technology industry."

Jeff Bezos: "An enormously influential business book whose principles Amazon acted on and that facilitated the creation of the Kindle and AWS."

Bill Gurley: "A book that all entrepreneurs should read"

Ben Horowitz: "A great book on strategy"

Steve Jobs: "It’s imporant that we make this transformation, because of what Clayton Christensen calls “the innovator’s dilemma,” where people who invent something are usually the last ones to see past it, and we certainly don’t want to be left behind."

Blake Scholl: "Everyone talks about it, I wonder how many people actually read it. You should actually read it.

You should know what disruptive innovation actually means."

One of Max Levchin's answers to 'What's your favourite business book you'd advise to young entrepreneurs?'

One of Aaron Levie's favorite business books.

One of five business books Chris Dixon recommended on Twitter.

Sheryl Sandberg: "[The Lean Startup] provides a great inside look at how the tech industry approaches building products and businesses."

Kevin Systrom: "I don’t know that I read the entire thing, but the principles from Lean Startup, I still apply today."

Mark Cuban: “The Lean Startup tackles the question, 'Why do most start-ups fail?'"

Marc Andreessen: "Eric has created a science where previously there was only art.

A must-read for every serious entrepreneur - and every manager interested in innovation."

Jason Calacanis: "You need to read 'The Lean Startup'"

One of five business books Chris Dixon recommended on Twitter.

Raoul Pal enjoyed reading 'The Lean Startup'.

Chris Dixon: “I always love reading Taleb’s books, even if I don’t always agree with him. This was up there with Black Swan and his other classics.”

Ben Horowitz: "A book about the dynamics of how large-scale, highly random systems behave."

Keith Rabois: "The Skin in the Game book is quite powerful, albeit often redundant."

Vinod Khosla: "I like his ideas a lot, especially in Antifragile and the first half of this book.

I've always complained about pundits relative to doers, discovering/learning over planning..."

Naval Ravikant recommended 'Skin In The Game' on Twitter.

Marc Andreessen recommended 'Skin In The Game' on Twitter.

Reid Hoffman: "If you want the chance to turn your startup into the next Google or Twitter, then read this trenchant guide from someone who played key roles in the growth of these companies."

Alexis Ohanian: "[Elad Gil's] book is required reading"

Chris Dixon: “This is a great book that complements Peter Thiel’s classic Zero to One (an alternative title for Elad’s book would be “1 to n”).

Everyone interested in the growth stage of startups should read it.”

Max Levchin: "Armed with observations gathered scaling some of the most successful and important companies of Silicon Valley, Elad has no-nonsense, highly applicable advice to any operator transitioning a company from the proverbial garage to the next stage and beyond."

Brian Armstrong: "Elad is one of the most experienced operators in Silicon Valley having seen numerous companies hit their inflection point.

His advice has been key for Coinbase as we go through hypergrowth, from hiring executives to improving M&A."

Aaron Levie: “Elad jam packs every useful lesson about building and scaling companies in a single, digestible book.

My only gripe is that he didn’t write this when we were in the early days of Box as it would have saved my ass countless times.”

Bill Gurley: "A book that all entrepreneurs should read"

Seth Godin: "Crossing the Chasm helps us understand that it is a myth — an incorrect myth, a false myth — to believe that we can start with an idea for a few people and ride it from early adopter to early majority to late majority to laggard."

Changpeng Zhao: "This book has helped me hone my message with regard to talking about Binance to the world."

One of Aaron Levie's favorite business books.

One of five business books Chris Dixon recommended on Twitter.

Casey Neistat: "Unbelievably riveting."

Andrew Wilkinson: "One of my favorite books of the past few years."

Alexis Ohanian: "Gripping read by Nick Bilton about the founding, rise, and fall of The Silk Road."

Chris Dixon: “I never really followed this story when it happened, so wanted to catch myself up. It is a real page-turner.”

Mark Zuckerberg: "It's about the competition to electrify the nation between Edison, Westinghouse and Tesla... Graham is a great storyteller."

Chris Dixon: “This was a fun semi-historical novel focusing on the epic legal battle between Westinghouse/Tesla vs Edison.

Good compliment to Empires of Light (one of my favorite history books).”

Vinod Khosla: "I don’t read fiction, but this almost historical fiction is fun especially for Silicon Valley types."

Chris Dixon: “Classic book that I admit I hadn’t read and my colleagues at a16z crypto got me to read."

This book was on Sam Altman's bookshelf.

Chris Dixon: “I just discovered Erik Larson this year and read a few of his books, but this was my favorite.

It’s an exciting story of the sinking of the Lusitania, which reads kind of like an action movie switching between the characters on the ship to the submarine crew who sinks them."

Lloyd Blankfein: "[Erik Larson is] a writer who makes these narrow events -- gives a lot of texture to them and makes them feel very vivid"

Chris Dixon: "One of my favorite history books"

Austen Allred: "[One of the books] that has inspired me the most or changed the way I live."

Chris Dixon: “A really interesting inside look at, well, Apple’s design process under Steve Jobs.

Apple is probably the premier product development organization of the last 20 years — and very little is known about it by outsiders — so inside peeks are always really fascinating.”

Chris Dixon: “Best history I’ve read on the 1990-2000s era of the Web.

For those of us who lived through it, it’s a really fun refresher. For others, it’s a quick and useful history lesson.”

Chris DIxon: “Great compliment to How the Internet Happened, focusing on early pioneers (1950s-1980s) who paved the way for the modern internet.”

Chris Dixon: "I always look forward to Steven Johnson’s books (How We Got to Now is probably my favorite) and this one was great as always, discussing the best way to make very long term decisions."

Chris Dixon: "It really is as good as advertised. For me, the best book I read this year both in terms of learning and enjoyment. Truly epic story, showing humanity at both its best and worst.”

Chris Dixon: "Probably my favorite [Steven Johnson book]"

Chris Dixon: “A docu-comic book that goes through how throughout history everything new that teenagers get excited about is deemed by experts to rot your mind, destroy society etc.

Historical examples covered by the book include comic books, video games, D&D, skateboarding, rock music, and, believe it or not, chess.”