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.

Marc Andreessen: “It’s the best book on management ever written.”

Tobi Lutke: "That’s one of the best books ever."

Ben Horowitz: "One of my favorite management books by far. In fact, I think it might have been the only management book that I ever read that I liked."

Larry Ellison: “When you want to improve something, measure it, and make sure you measure the right thing”

Brian Armstrong: "Surprisingly, I found I was already using many of the management ideas in this book (1:1, OKRs, etc) which is a testament to just how influential this book is."

Mark Zuckerberg: “[Andy’s] book played a big role in shaping my management style.”

Brian Chesky's primary reference book on management.

One of Sahil Lavingia's most recommended books.

One of the books Keith Rabois recommends for entrepreneurs.

Patrick O'Shaughnessy mentioned reading and loving High Output Management 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.

Austen Allred: "Snow Crash is now one of my favorite books of all-time"

Tobi Lutke: "Loved it. I’ve read every book by [Neal Stephenson]!"

Fred Wilson: "A lot of what we invest in and how we look at the future comes from that book"

Seth Godin: "It’s such a good book but you can’t give it to someone now. I've tried; it doesn’t work.

You have to read it before you’ve been on the internet. Then it changes your mind."

Cameron Winklevoss: "Love [Snow Crash]!"

Alexis Ohanian: "Snow Crash is so good. I gotta re-read; it's been too long."

Marc Andreessen: "Snow Crash was wildly ahead of its time"

Naval Ravikant recommended 'Snow Crash' on Twitter.

One of Larry Page's recommended books.

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'.

Warren Buffett: "This book is something of a publishing miracle—never advertised, yet year after year selling many thousands of copies from its Internet site."

Shane Parrish: "Because I have an MBA a lot of people inevitably ask me if they should pursue one.

If it’s knowledge and not credentials you’re after, save your money and read [this book]"

Daniel Ek: "I've been enjoying Charlie Munger's speeches online for years; this is the ultimate collection of the best of them"

Marc Andreessen: "Tremendous"

Naval Ravikant recommended Poor Charlie's Almanack on Twitter.

Patrick Collison included this book on his list of recommended books.

Tim Ferriss mentioned reading Poor Charlie's Almanack on Twitter.

Nassim Taleb: “This is a landmark book in social thought, in the same league as The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith and The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud.”

Naval Ravikant: "Fine book but it didn’t need to be an entire book."

Marc Andreessen: "Captivating dive into human decision making, marred by inclusion of several/many? psychology studies that fail to replicate. Will stand as a cautionary tale?"

One of Sam Altman's recommended books for young startup founders.

One of Sahil Lavingia's most recommended books.

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.

Marc Andreessen: "A very good book we recommend"

Ben Horowitz: "I read this book as part of my MBA program. It’s full of common sense, which, while I didn’t know it at the time, isn’t so common."

Vinod Khosla: "Andy's Only the Parnoid Survive is one of [my] favorite books on entrepreneurship"

Balaji Srinivasan: "We’ve all read Grove. Only the paranoid survive."

Charlie Munger recommended 'Only The Paranoid Survive' 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: "Matt Ridley's "The Rational Optimist" is the most brilliant and enlightening book I've read in years."

Anthony Pompliano: "One of the best books I read in 2017"

Bill Gurley: "I really, really loved 'How Innovation Works' from Matt Ridley.

It is a very elegant follow up to 'The Rational Optimist' - read both if you can."

Marc Andreessen: "Sparkling explanation of how the economy evolves, producing the glorious cornucopia of goods and services available all around us.

How to feel good about the future even in dark times."

Mark Zuckerberg: "This book argues that economic progress is the greater force is pushing society forward."

Seth Godin: "The first chapter alone will change your life.

'Thinking in Bets' helps us understand what it actually means to make a decision, because decisions and outcomes are different things."

Michael Mauboussin: "An awesome book"

Marc Andreessen: "Compact guide to probabilistic domains like poker, or venture capital.

Best articulation of "resulting", drawing bad conclusions from confusing process and outcome. Recommend for people operating in the real world."

Howard Marks: "Thinking in Bets talks about how to systematize our thinking about making decisions under uncertainty because that's what we do as investors, just like poker players or gamblers"

Max Levchin: "One of the takeaways I found most relevant to business is that you should not conflate the quality of your judgement with the ultimate outcome of an initiative."

Tim Ferriss: "I’ve been loving [Extreme Ownership]. Trust me. Buy it."

Marc Andreessen: "I hand out more copies of this book than any other. How to take responsibility for yourself and for those around you.

Modern Stoicism, as applied in the military, business, and life."

Michael Mauboussin: "Great book by two remarkable men. You want these guys on your side."

Casey Neistat: "My favorite Jocko book"

Marc Andreessen: "Steve Jobs is the person who most inspires the new generation of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. In this deeply-researched book, you'll find the most honest portrait of the real Steve Jobs."

Jack Dorsey: "Square would not exist without the work and persistence of Steve Jobs. I am forever grateful. Amazing read."

Brian Armstrong: "A biography of the famous Apple CEO. I read the Walter Isaacson biography last year, but found this one slightly better."

One of the books Keith Rabois recommends for entrepreneurs.

Joe Rogan: "It's fucking amazing."

Marc Andreessen: "Anytime anybody feels mopey about what's happening in their startup or in their life, this is the book to read to reset all the expectations."

Austen Allred: "This is some of the craziest stuff I’ve ever read."

Anthony Pompliano: "Have been a Goggins fan for awhile. The book didn't disappoint"

Michael Mauboussin: "The best book I have ever read on human behavior. Sapolsky is an amazing teacher."

Vinod Khosla: "Among the best insights into our brain and behavior. A top of the charts for me for this year, along with Scale."

Marc Andreessen: "Robert Sapolsky's magnum opus on human behavior."

Keith Rabois: "A bit of a long commitment but worth it. Provocative."

Marc Andreessen: "I've always wondered what would have happened if we had built one-click payments into the browser from the very beginning. With bitcoin, we finally get this 'Internet of Money'.

But this book isn't just an ode to bitcoin -- it's an ode to open protocols, what happens when you connect people online, and the power of innovation on the internet."

Balaji Srinivasan: "With Mastering Bitcoin, Andreas Antonopoulos wrote one of the best technical books on digital currency. With The Internet of Money, he's matched that feat by compiling his talks into one of the best books on Bitcoin for a broad audience. Highly recommended!"

Raoul Pal: "This book will help you understand the technology and the philosophical potential of the [Bitcoin] space"

Michael Saylor recommended The Internet of Money on his Bitcoin website, Hope.com

Jack Dorsey: "Incredible book by Stewart Brand. Best I’ve read this year."

Marc Andreessen: "[A book on] why even environmentalists should be pro building, pro cities, pro nuclear, and pro genetic engineering."

Matt Ridley: "Stewart Brand is the god of the environmental movement."

Michael Mauboussin: "[Secrets of Sand Hill Road] is great!"

Sam Altman: “I’ve observed thousands of founders and thought a lot about what it takes to create something important and to achieve outlier success.

Kupor’s book takes founders who want to do both through everything from how VCs raise money and evaluate deals, to how to think about term sheets and set up boards.

It’s a valuable resource for any founder who wants to work with VCs.”

Tobi Lutke: "A Guide to the Good Life is one of the best books I’ve ever read."

Marc Andreessen: "Best walk through the ancient/current philosophy of Stoicism. You can't control other people but you can control yourself, so do that."

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

Marc Andreessen: "Smash hit in Japan, and easy to see why. Adlerian psychology meets Stoic philosophy in Socratic dialogue.

Compelling from front to back. Highly recommend."

Anthony Pompliano: "This book is tremendous. Highly recommend!"

Stewart Butterfield: "'The Courage to be Disliked' — which, right off the bat: great title, and definitely something I need — is a very traditional Socratic dialog, originally written in Japanese, principally about the work of the Austrian psychotherapist Alfred Adler.

Will cause keen self-reflection!"

Marc Andreessen: "A bracing disassembly and reconstruction of a theory of individual progress in the modern world.

Fascinating compare and contrast with 'The Courage To Be Disliked'"

Joe Rogan mentioned 12 Rules For Life on the 'Joe Rogan Experience' podcast.

Naval Ravikant mentioned 12 Rules For Life on Twitter.

Marc Andreessen: "What's it like to train with a Navy SEAL in winter in New York for a whole month? Featuring the truly remarkable American hero David Goggins"

Austen Allred: "Thoroughly enjoyed Living With a SEAL by Jesse Itzler"

Sara Blakely: "George Foreman once gave me great advice. When I told him my husband ran 100 miles non-stop he said, 'Sara, don't try to understand a man like that. Just love him.'"

Marc Andreessen: "The main lesson of the book [is that] the key to success is 'be so good they can’t ignore you.'"

One of Sahil Lavingia's most recommended books.

One of 10 biographies Jason Calacanis recommends reading.

Seth Godin: "This is a vitally important book. Simple, powerful and generous, it should be required reading."

Michael Mauboussin: "Annie Duke gives you the tools you need and tells you how to use them effectively. Smart and practical, _How to Decide _is the best user's guide to decision-making that you'll find."

Marc Andreessen: "'The decisions you make are like a portfolio of investments.' I believe that almost everything can be viewed as a portfolio -- whether it's a set of products a single company decides to make, the schools and jobs and skills an individual invests in, and all kinds of life decisions.

The question is, how do we make sure that portfolio as a whole advances you toward your goals -- even though any individual decision within it is a win or loss?

In this new book, Annie provides exercises for how to decide. All of us -- not just investors -- should be obsessed with making better decisions."

Matt Ridley: "A fascinating, surprising and beautifully written history of technology, economics, and culture, told through the thread of textiles, humanity's most indispensable artefacts. I loved it."

Marc Andreessen: "The story of technology is a story of human ingenuity, and nowhere is this more clear than in the story of textiles: the original technology, going beyond what we commonly think of as 'tech.'

As with many technologies, we suffer an amnesia about them when we enjoy them in abundance, as Postrel observes; her book gives us back our memories about this technology that we use every day without even knowing it."

Brianne Kimmel recommended 'The Fabric of Civilization' for anyone interested in the creator economy.

Marc Andreessen: "Is the future knowable, and by whom? All pundits and commentators should publish their prediction track records, yet don't.

What to pay attention to and what to ignore."

Michael Mauboussin: "I love Jeffrey Friedman's new book, War and Chance. I feel the same sense of revelation as when I read Expert Political Judgment by Phil Tetlock"

Marc Andreessen: "Startlingly deep cultural history of conspiracies, examined through the lens of the brutally effective Gawker takedown, with full access to the main players."

Raoul Pal enjoyed reading 'Conspiracy'.

Julian Guthrie: "[Larry Ellison picked up] his Kindle so he could finish reading 'Lone Survivor'. Larry had noted a page: 'The real battle is won in the mind.'"

Marc Andreessen: "The film was fine but the book is unreal; incredibly vivid story of superlative American heroes."

Brian Chesky: "I was living one life, kind of going down the predictable road, and I read this biography. That had a huge impact on me.”

Marc Andreessen: "Neal Gabler has written the best biography on Walt Disney. And it’s a phenomenal book."

Marc Andreessen: "Software is eating the world and 'Without Their Permission' is your ultimate cookbook."

Garry Tan: “Alexis and Steve’s reddit story is a the great American dream writ large and in digital ink. Alexis gives an approachable, easy-to-understand blueprint on how anyone with a laptop can touch millions of people’s lives and make something people love.”

Paul Graham: "Peter Connolly's The Ancient City is one of the best books I've found for explaining history to kids."

Marc Andreessen mentioned The Ancient City on Twitter.

Marc Andreessen: “Forget everything you thought you knew about Charles Koch and read this book.

Charles and Brian offer a clear path to success for anyone who wants to make a difference.

An unrelenting picture of optimism that's a roadmap for solving our country's biggest problems.”

Marc Andreessen: "[An important book] on how economic systems that encourage aggressive entrepreneurship build the most for the benefit of the most."

Marc Andreessen: "[An important book] on how technology-driven productivity growth improves human welfare and creates more jobs and higher wages."

Marc Andreessen: "[An important book] on how modern technological economies can build more outputs with less inputs, and why we need all economies to be modern and technological."

Marc Andreessen: "[An important book] on perhaps the greatest American builder of all, the builder who brought electricity to us all, Thomas Edison."

Marc Andreessen: "[An important book] on the central role cities play in our world and why it's so important for us to build them -- more, bigger, better."

Marc Andreessen: "[An important book] on why we can't build in great American cities like San Francisco today and what we need to do about it."

Marc Andreessen: "[An important book] on how four great builders of the 19th century built the world we live in today."

Marc Andreessen: "Wide-ranging meditation on how to think about the reality that we're probably wrong about most things we believe.

Hard to read and not emerge humbled."

Marc Andreessen: "Inside story of how Britain decided to exit the EU.

Economic self-destruction or national liberation? Repercussions to play out for decades."

Marc Andreessen: "'Billions'-esque saga of global financial market manipulation, at mind-boggling scale and hiding in plain sight, by a small cabal of bankers in London."

Marc Andreessen: "'Wall Street'-esque battle between Bill Ackman and Carl Icahn over unlikely target Herbalife.

Sip a delicious Herbal Aloe Shake while reading."

Marc Andreessen: "Certainly the story is well known, but given author's propensity to post photos of himself wearing running shoes in Iowa, potentially relevant again starting next year?"

Marc Andreessen: "One perspective on the politics of immgiration in Europe, playing out in real time.

Confusing on multiple levels from US perspective."

Marc Andreessen: "On the bus/in the plane with the Hillary campaign. Revealing in many dimensions at once, and highly entertaining.

Best book on the 2016 campaign so far?"

Marc Andreessen: "How 1960s racial politics descended into 1970s terrorist bombings, thanks to privileged college students breaking very bad."

Marc Andreessen: "Visceral, raw, you-are-there recounting of living through the hack attacks and resulting meltdown of the DNC in 2016."

Marc Andreessen: "Spellbinding creative and business history of the incredibly imaginative comic book industry in the decades before it ate Hollywood."

Marc Andreessen: "Best book so far on the Republican side of the 2016 race, and a deep dive into the intellectual origins of Bannonism and to some extent Trumpism."

Marc Andreessen: "The founding and growth of military contractor Blackwater as told by its founder and CEO; newly relevant due to the Mueller investigation."

Marc Andreessen: "Startling walk through a series of domains where peak human performance is rising at remarkable rates due to 'flow state'.

Thought provoking and then some."

Marc Andreessen: "Best book so far on the Democratic side of the 2016 race, most provocatively on the impact of the press coverage of the email hacks on the last stages of the race."

Marc Andreessen: "The astonishing story of the Litvinenko and Perepilichnyy assassinations in the UK; reads like a Lee Child thriller; plenty topical now."

Marc Andreessen recommended 'The Myth of the Rational Voter' on Twitter.

Marc Andreessen: "How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—All versions of a bigger question: How do you live?"

Marc Andreessen: "True, chilling saga of straight up, profoundly deep treason and betrayal. Sociopaths in high positions of power and influence. Hair curling."

Marc Andreessen: "The Schultz biography is amazing.

Basically, the biographer makes the case that Peanuts was the longest, continuous work of American art ever made."

Marc Andreessen: "The Wizard of Menlo Park is a great biography of [Thomas] Edison."

Marc Andreessen: "They’re great novels. And he’s got this partner, Joe Pike. He’s my favorite fictional character maybe of all time."

Marc Andreessen: "The book that's had the biggest impact on me."

Marc Andreessen: "Some things never change!"

Marc Andreessen: "It'll keep you up late at night"

Marc Andreessen: "Brynjolfsson and McAfee are right: we are on the cusp of a dramatically different world brought on by technology.

The Second Machine Age is the book for anyone who wants to thrive in it. I’ll encourage all of our entrepreneurs to read it, and hope their competitors don’t."

Reid Hoffman: "The Second Machine Age offers important insights into how digital technologies are transforming our economy, a process that has only just begun.

Erik and Andrew’s thesis: As massive technological innovation radically reshapes our world, we need to develop new business models, new technologies, and new policies that amplify our human capabilities, so every person can stay economically viable in an age of increasing automation. I couldn’t agree more."

Raoul Pal said 'The Second Machine Age' influenced his macro thinking on Twitter.

Marc Andreessen mentioned Rainbows End on Twitter.

Marc Andreessen mentioned Intellectuals and Society on Twitter.