books recommended by Alfred Lin

Alfred Lin is an American venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital. Lin was the COO, CFO, and Chairman of Zappos.com until 2010.

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books recommended by Alfred Lin

Sapiens

Sapiens

Yuval Noah Harari

Zero to One

Zero to One

Peter Thiel

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

The Hard Thing About Hard Things

The Hard Thing About Hard Things

Ben Horowitz

Shoe Dog

Shoe Dog

Phil Knight

Good to Great

Good to Great

Jim Collins

Extreme Ownership

Extreme Ownership

Jocko Willink

Made to Stick

Made to Stick

Chip & Dan Heath

The Undoing Project

The Undoing Project

Michael Lewis

Factfulness

Factfulness

Hans Rosling

Start with Why

Start with Why

Simon Sinek

Predictably Irrational

Predictably Irrational

Dan Ariely

Originals

Originals

Adam Grant

The Rational Optimist

The Rational Optimist

Matt Ridley

Bad Blood

Bad Blood

John Carreyrou

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Yuval Noah Harari

The Outsiders

The Outsiders

William N. Thorndike

Never Split the Difference

Never Split the Difference

Chris Voss

Billion Dollar Whale

Billion Dollar Whale

Tom Wright & Bradley Hope

Tribe

Tribe

Sebastian Junger

AI Superpowers

AI Superpowers

Kai-Fu Lee

Drive

Drive

Daniel Pink

The Road to Character

The Road to Character

David Brooks

Charlie Munger

Charlie Munger

Tren Griffin

Algorithms to Live By

Algorithms to Live By

Brian Christian

decisive

decisive

Chip & Dan Heath

Chaos Monkeys

Chaos Monkeys

Antonio García Martínez

The Third Wave

The Third Wave

Steve Case

Leaders Eat Last

Leaders Eat Last

Simon Sinek

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

Patrick Lencioni

Monetizing Innovation

Monetizing Innovation

Madhavan Ramanujam & Georg Tacke

The Book of Joy

The Book of Joy

Dalai Lama

Talent is Overrated

Talent is Overrated

Geoff Colvin

The Inevitable

The Inevitable

Kevin Kelly

The Opposite of Spoiled

The Opposite of Spoiled

Ron Lieber

The Aspirational Investor

The Aspirational Investor

Ashvin B. Chhabra

Designing Your Life

Designing Your Life

Bill Burnett

The Fifth Risk

The Fifth Risk

Michael Lewis

What Got You Here Won’t Get You There

What Got You Here Won’t Get You There

Marshall Goldsmith

Boomerang

Boomerang

Michael Lewis

The History of Money

The History of Money

Jack Weatherford

The Industries of the Future

The Industries of the Future

Alec Ross

Great by Choice

Great by Choice

Jim Collins

Farsighted

Farsighted

Steven Johnson

Wild Ride

Wild Ride

Adam Lashinsky

Branded Customer Service

Branded Customer Service

Janelle Barlow

Thank You for Being Late

Thank You for Being Late

Thomas L. Friedman

Halftime

Halftime

Bob Buford

What It Takes to Be Number One

What It Takes to Be Number One

Vince Lombardi

The Hundred-Year Marathon

The Hundred-Year Marathon

Michael Pillsbury

How the Mighty Fall

How the Mighty Fall

Jim Collins

Red Teaming

Red Teaming

Bryce G. Hoffman

Payoff

Payoff

Dan Ariely

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Sapiens

Zero to One

Thinking, Fast and Slow

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