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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.
Brian Armstrong: "Celebrate the creators in the world (even when they struggle). They may be more valuable than we think."
Blake Scholl: "Far and away my favorite book is Atlas Shrugged"
Travis Kalanick mentioned 'Atlas Shrugged' in a Washington Post interview.
Fred Wilson recommends 'Atlas Shrugged' for entrepreneurs.
Elon Musk: "The Foundation series [is] fundamental to [the] creation of SpaceX."
Naval Ravikant: "I loved reading it as a kid"
Austen Allred recommended 'Foundation' on Twitter.
Cameron Winklevoss: "I have a couple [favorite books], to name a few, Isaac Asimov's Foundation, Frank Herbert's Dune, Daniel Mason's The Piano Tuner"
One of Sahil Lavingia's most recommended books.
This book was on Sam Altman's bookshelf.
Elon Musk: "Dune Series by Herbert [is] brilliant. He advocates placing limits on machine intelligence."
Tim Ferriss: "Dune presents perhaps the most incredibly detailed and oddly believable fictional landscape I’ve ever encountered."
Jeff Bezos: "I’m a big science-fiction fan. I love Dune."
Cameron Winklevoss: "I have a couple [favorite books], to name a few, Isaac Asimov's Foundation, Frank Herbert's Dune, Daniel Mason's The Piano Tuner"
One of Sahil Lavingia's most recommended books.
Elon Musk: "I love Douglas Adams! My favorite spaceship ever is in Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy."
Naval Ravikant: "Classic. I love that book."
Tim Ferriss: "If 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' and 'Star Wars' had a love-child, it would read something like this."
One of Richard Branson's top books to read in a lifetime.
One of Sahil Lavingia's most recommended books.
Elon Musk: "I know it's cliche, but Lord of the Rings is my favorite book ever."
Naval Ravikant: "Loved Lord of The Rings and other fiction when [I was] younger."
As a teenager, Peter Thiel's favorite book was 'The Lord of the Rings,' which he read again and again.
Paul Graham's answer to "Any book recommendations for young adults?"
Reid Hoffman: "The book that I’ve most often read is Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.
Elon Musk: "Excellent cover art and lots of good reasons not to lie!"
Vinod Khosla: "One of my favorite one hour reads about intellectual honesty. I wish more people were this honest!"
Tim Ferriss: "It’s a great book."
Brian Armstrong: "How life with radical honesty."
Paul Graham: "It's a great book, probably in my all time top 100."
Elon Musk: "[Benjamin Franklin] was an entrepreneur. He started from nothing. Basically just a runaway kid."
Charlie Munger recommended 'The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin' in his book Poor Charlie's Almanack.
Included on Jamie Dimon's list of favorite books he sent to JP Morgan summer interns in 2010.
Naval Ravikant's answer to "Any good book about economy for a beginner?"
Elon Musk: "I like 'Stranger in a Strange Land', although it kind of goes off the rails at the end."
Tim Ferriss: "Incredible."
One of Sahil Lavingia's most recommended books.
Alexis Ohanian: "Got a ton of these for the Initialized office."
Elon Musk: "Daemon is a great read."
One of Elon Musk's favorite books about space.
Paul Graham: "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress made me want to work on AI, which led to Lisp."
Elon Musk: "Great book. Read it when it came out."
Patrick Collison included this book on his list of recommended books.
Elon Musk: "The Skeptics Guide to the Universe is good"
One of Elon Musk's favorite books about space.
