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Jason Calacanis

 Jason Calacanis is an American Internet entrepreneur, angel investor, author and podcaster. Jason hosts the 'This Week in Startups' podcast, and was an early investor in Uber. 

17 Recommended books from Jason Calacanis

  • All over but the Shoutin'

    by Rick Bragg September 8, 1998 Biographies & Memoirs

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    4.7 stars

    1,408 ratings

    A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

    This haunting, harrowing, gloriously moving recollection of a life on the Americ...

  • Born Standing Up

    by Steve Martin September 2, 2008 Biographies & Memoirs

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    4.5 stars

    2,319 ratings

    The riveting, mega-bestselling, beloved and highly acclaimed memoir of a man, a vocation, and an era named one of the ten best ...

  • Creativity, Inc

    by Ed Catmull April 8, 2014 Business & Money

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    4.5 stars

    3,702 ratings

    **From a co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios—the Academy Award–winning studio behind Coco, Inside Out, and Toy Story—comes an...

  • Good to Great

    by Jim Collins October 16, 2001 Politics & Social Sciences

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    4.5 stars

    4,701 ratings

    The Challenge:
    Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and ...

  • Hillbilly Elegy

    by J.D. Vance May 1, 2018 History

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    4.5 stars

    25,964 ratings

    THE Number 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER IS NOW A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD AND STARRING AMY ADAMS, GLENN CLO...

  • I Love Capitalism!

    by Ken Langone May 15, 2018 Biographies & Memoirs

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    4.6 stars

    547 ratings

    New York Times Bestseller

    Iconoclastic entrepreneur and New York legend Ken Langone tells the compelling story of how a po...

  • Idoru (Bridge Trilogy)

    by William Gibson September 1, 1997 Science Fiction & Fantasy

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    4.5 stars

    341 ratings

    “The best novel William Gibson has ever written about the world we’re entering daily. Neuromancer made Gibson famous; Idoru...

  • On Writing

    by Stephen King July 6, 2010 Reference

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    4.8 stars

    10,043 ratings

    Immensely helpful and illuminating to any aspiring writer, this special edition of Stephen King’s critically lauded, million-co...

  • One of a Kind

    by Nolan Dalla and Peter Alson May 30, 2006 Biographies & Memoirs

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    4.7 stars

    227 ratings

    Now in paperback comes the first and authorized biography of Stuey Ungar, the greatest card player of all time, who was bac...

  • Red Notice

    by Bill Browder October 20, 2015 Biographies & Memoirs

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    4.8 stars

    8,841 ratings

    “[Red Notice] does for investing in Russia and the former Soviet Union what Liar’s Poker did for our understanding of Salomon...

  • 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 ...

  • Something Like An Autobiography

    by Akira Kurosawa May 12, 1983 Humor & Entertainment

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    4.8 stars

    286 ratings

    "A first rate book and a joy to read.... It's doubtful that a complete understanding of the director's artistry can be obtained...

  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X

    by Malcolm X, Alex Haley andAttallah Shabazz November 1, 1992 Politics & Social Sciences

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    4.8 stars

    12,748 ratings

    ONE OF TIME’S TEN MOST IMPORTANT NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

    In the searing pages of this classic autobiograph...

  • The Fish That Ate the Whale

    by Rich Cohen June 4, 2013 History

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    4.5 stars

    590 ratings

    **Named a Best Book of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle and The Times-Picayune

    The fascinating untold tale of Samuel ...

  • 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 Ride of a Lifetime

    by Robert Iger July 21, 2021 Humor & Entertainment

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    4.5 stars

    10,862 ratings

    Number 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A memoir of leadership and success: The executive chairman of Disney, Time’s 2019 business...

  • 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...

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