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Ben Horowitz

Benjamin Horowitz is an American businessman, investor, blogger, and author. He is a technology entrepreneur and co-founder along with Marc Andreessen of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

19 Recommended books from Ben Horowitz

  • Dapper Dan

    by Daniel R. Day July 9, 2019 Arts & Photography

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    4.8 stars

    1,246 ratings

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Dapper Dan is a legend, an icon, a beacon of inspiration to many in the Black community. His sto...

  • Focus

    by Al Ries September 27, 2005 Business & Money

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    4.2 stars

    88 ratings

    What's the secret to a company's continued growth and prosperity? Internationally known marketing expert Al Ries has the answer...

  • 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 ...

  • High Output Management

    by Andrew S. Grove August 29, 1995 Business & Money

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    4.6 stars

    1,999 ratings

    In this legendary business book and Silicon Valley staple, the former chairman and CEO of Intel shares his perspective on how t...

  • Lenin

    by Victor Sebestyen October 9, 2018 Biographies & Memoirs

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    4.6 stars

    276 ratings

    Victor Sebestyen's riveting biography of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin—the first major biography in English in nearly two decades—is no...

  • My American Journey

    by Colin Powell February 18, 2003 Biographies & Memoirs

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    4.8 stars

    368 ratings

    “A great American success story . . . an endearing and well-written book.”—The New York Times Book Review

    Colin Powell is ...

  • My Years with General Motors

    by Alfred P. Sloan Jr. October 1, 1990 Biographies & Memoirs

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    4.3 stars

    133 ratings

    My Years with General Motors became an instant bestseller when it was first published in 1963. It has since been used as a ma...

  • No Rules Rules

    by Reed Hastings September 8, 2020 Business & Money

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    4.6 stars

    3,797 ratings

    The New York Times bestseller

    Shortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year

    Netflix cof...

  • Only the Paranoid Survive

    by Andrew S. Grove April 23, 2010 Business & Money

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    4.5 stars

    677 ratings

    Andy Grove, founder and former CEO of Intel shares his strategy for success as he takes the reader deep inside the workings of ...

  • Skin in the Game

    by Nassim Nicholas Taleb February 27, 2018 Politics & Social Sciences

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    4.5 stars

    2,090 ratings

    NUMBER 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A bold work from the author of The Black Swan that challenges many of our long-held be...

  • Swimming Across

    by Andrew S. Grove November 12, 2001 Biographies & Memoirs

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    4.6 stars

    64 ratings

    A dramatic personal memoir by the chairman of Intel describes growing up in Europe on the eve of Nazi Germany's invasion of his...

  • The Black Jacobins

    by C. L. R. James October 23, 1989 History

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    4.8 stars

    700 ratings

    A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World.

    This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the ...

  • The Innovator's Dilemma

    by Clayton M. Christensen November 19, 2013 Business & Money

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    4.5 stars

    1,503 ratings

    Named one of 100 Leadership & Success Books to Read in a Lifetime by Amazon Editors

    An innovation classic. From Steve Jobs t...

  • The Lean Startup

    by Eric Ries September 13, 2011 Business & Money

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    4.6 stars

    8,603 ratings

    Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the g...

  • The Startup Community Way

    by Brad Feld July 28, 2020 Business & Money

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    4.8 stars

    101 ratings

    The Way Forward for Entrepreneurship Around the World

    We are in the midst of a startup revolution. The growth and proliferat...

  • Toussaint Louverture

    by Philippe Girard November 22, 2016 Biographies & Memoirs

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    4.7 stars

    38 ratings

    The definitive biography of the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture, leader of the only successful slave revolt in world...

  • Who Is Michael Ovitz?

    by Michael Ovitz July 18, 2019 Biographies & Memoirs

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    4.6 stars

    211 ratings

    If you're going to read one book about Hollywood, this is the one.

    As co-founder of Creative Artists Agency (CAA), Michael O...

  • Writing My Wrongs

    by Shaka Senghor January 31, 2017 Biographies & Memoirs

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    4.7 stars

    1,012 ratings

    New York Times bestseller | Member of Oprah's SuperSoul 100 | one of World Economic Forum's "Most Recommended Books of 2016"
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  • Zero to One

    by Peter Thiel September 16, 2014 Business & Money

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    4.6 stars

    10,097 ratings

    NUMBER 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets.

    The great secre...

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