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Austen Allred

Austen Allred is the Co-Founder and CEO of Lambda School. Before founding Lambda School, Austen was the co-founder of media platform GrassWire. He co-authored the growth hacking textbook Secret Sauce, which became a best-seller and provided him the personal seed money to build Lambda.

25 Recommended books from Austen Allred

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  • A Guide to the Good Life

    by William B. Irvine November 4, 2008 Religion & Spirituality

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    4.6 stars

    1,945 ratings

    One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discover at the end that we have wa...

  • Can't Hurt Me

    by David Goggins December 4, 2018 Health, Fitness & Dieting

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    4.8 stars

    40,917 ratings

    New York Times Bestseller

    Over 2.5 million copies sold

    For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare -- poverty,...

  • Dealers of Lightning

    by Michael A. Hiltzik April 5, 2000 Business & Money

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    4.5 stars

    157 ratings

    In the bestselling tradition of The Soul of a New Machine, Dealers of Lightning is a fascinating journey of intellectual crea...

  • Elon Musk

    by Ashlee Vance May 19, 2015 Engineering & Transportation

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    4.7 stars

    14,214 ratings

    New York Times and International Bestseller

    Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Audibl...

  • Empires of Light

    by Jill Jonnes August 19, 2003 Engineering & Transportation

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    4.5 stars

    383 ratings

    The gripping history of electricity and how the fateful collision of Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse left ...

  • Essentialism

    by Greg McKeown April 15, 2014 Business & Money

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    4.6 stars

    6,573 ratings

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than one million copies sold! Essentialism isn’t about getting more done in less time. It’s ...

  • Foundation

    by Isaac Asimov January 1, 2016 Science Fiction & Fantasy

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    4.8 stars

    603 ratings

    The Complete Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series Books 1-7 (Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation, Foundation's Edg...

  • Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

    by Jack Weatherford March 22, 2005 Biographies & Memoirs

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    4.6 stars

    2,834 ratings

    New York Times Bestseller • The startling true history of how one extraordinary man from a remote cornerof the world created ...

  • Great Ideas Meditations

    by Marcus Aurelius July 25, 2021 Biographies & Memoirs

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    4.5 stars

    7,691 ratings

    In one of the world's most famous and influential books, Meditations, Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 121–180) describes the ...

  • Hackers

    by Steven Levy November 1, 1985 Computers & Technology

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    4.6 stars

    385 ratings

    This 25th anniversary edition of Steven Levy's classic book traces the exploits of the computer revolution's original hackers -...

  • Les Miserables

    by Victor Hugo October 1, 2013 Literature & Fiction

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    4.7 stars

    672 ratings

    OW A SIX-PART MINISERIES ON MASTERPIECE ON PBS

    The only completely unabridged paperback edition of Victor Hugo’s masterpiece...

  • Living with a SEAL

    by Jesse Itzler November 1, 2016 Biographies & Memoirs

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    4.7 stars

    3,537 ratings

    Entrepreneur Jesse Itzler chronicles his month of living and extreme fitness training with a Navy SEAL in the New York Times ...

  • Masters of Doom

    by David Kushner May 11, 2004 Business & Money

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    4.8 stars

    1,112 ratings

    **Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Togethe...

  • Ready Player One

    by Ernest Cline August 16, 2011 Humor & Entertainment

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    4.7 stars

    39,135 ratings

    Number 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Now a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg.

    “Enchanting . . . _Willy Won...

  • Shoe Dog

    by Phil Knight April 26, 2016 Biographies & Memoirs

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    4.8 stars

    17,507 ratings

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and board chairman Phil ...

  • Snow Crash

    by Neal Stephenson August 26, 2003 Science Fiction & Fantasy

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    4.3 stars

    2,624 ratings

    One of Time’s 100 best English-language novels • A mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous, you...

  • Storm of Steel

    by Ernst Jünger May 4, 2004 Biographies & Memoirs

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    4.6 stars

    390 ratings

    The memoir widely viewed as the best account ever written of fighting in WW1

    A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and as...

  • The New New Thing

    by Michael Lewis January 6, 2014 Biographies & Memoirs

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    4.4 stars

    596 ratings

    New York Times Bestseller. “A superb book. . . . [Lewis] makes Silicon Valley as thrilling and intelligible as he made Wall S...

  • The Snowball

    by Alice Schroeder October 27, 2009 Biographies & Memoirs

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    4.6 stars

    2,373 ratings

    The personally revealing and complete biography of the man known everywhere as “The Oracle of Omaha”—for fans of the HBO docume...

  • The Upside of Stress

    by Kelly McGonigal May 10, 2016 Health, Fitness & Dieting

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    4.7 stars

    682 ratings

    Drawing from groundbreaking research, psychologist and award-winning teacher Kelly McGonigal, PhD, offers a surprising new view...

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