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Michael Dell, James Kaplan
I Love Capitalism!: An American Story
Ken Langone · 320 pages
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
Yvon Chouinard · 266 pages
The long-awaited memoir/manifesto from legendary climber, businessman, and environmentalist Yvon Chouinard, founder and owner of one of the world's most inspiring companies, Patagonia, Inc.Whether you care about adventure sports, the fate of the natural world, or pure brand maintenance and business success, Patagonia, Inc. is one of the earth's most interesting and inspiring companies. For almost
Simply Fly
G.R. Gopinath · 380 pages
Autobiography of G.R. Gopinath, b. 1951, founder of Air Deccan, India's first low-cost airline.
Sir Richard Branson: The Autobiography
Richard Branson · 112 pages
What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence
Stephen A. Schwarzman · 400 pages
Sam Walton: Made In America
Sam Walton, John Huey · 272 pages
Meet a genuine American folk hero cut from the homespun cloth of America's heartland: Sam Walton, who parlayed a single dime store in a hardscrabble cotton town into Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world. The undisputed merchant king of the late twentieth century, Sam never lost the common touch. Here, finally, inimitable words. Genuinely modest, but always sure if his ambitions and achie
So You Want to Start a Brewery?: The Lagunitas Story
Tony Magee · 216 pages
"The first-person account of Tony Magee's gut-wrenching challenges and heart-warming successes in founding Lagunitas Brewing Company. In just 20 years, the company has grown from a seat-of-the-pants, one-man operation to be the fifth largest--and the fastest-growing--craft brewer in the United States. This equal part memoir, narrative, and business story is an illuminating yet hilarious account an
Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's
Ray Kroc, Robert Anderson · 218 pages
Few entrepreneurs can claim to have actually changed the way we live, but Ray Kroc is one of them. His revolutions in food service automation, franchising, shared national training and advertising have earned him a place beside the men who founded not merely businesses but entire new industries. But even more interesting than Ray Kroc the business legend is Ray Kroc the man. Not your typical se
Elon Musk: Inventing the Future
Ashlee Vance · 396 pages
In the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley's most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs -- a real-life Tony Stark -- and a fascinating exploration of the renewal of American invention and its new "makers." Elon Musk spotlights the technology and vision of Elon Musk, the renowned
To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History
Lawrence Levy · 272 pages
"After Steve Jobs was unceremoniously dismissed from Apple in the early 1990's, while building his failed competitor NeXT, he made a side bet to develop a little-known, barely profitable video graphics company called Pixar. One day, out of the blue, Jobs called Lawrence Levy, a Harvard-trained attorney, in the hope that Jobs could somehow persuade Levy to join forces with him in his quest to energ
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson · 631 pages
Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years -- as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues -- Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industrie
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
Tony Hsieh · 253 pages
Tony Hsieh--the widely-admired CEO of on-line shoe retailer, Zappos--explains how he created a unique culture and commitment to service that aims to improve the lives of its employees, customers, vendors and backers. Even better, he shows how creating happiness and record results go hand-in-hand.
Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind
Biz Stone · 224 pages
"Biz Stone, the co-founder of Twitter, discusses the power of creativity and how to harness it, through stories from his remarkable life and career. THINGS A LITTLE BIRD TOLD ME From GQ's "Nerd of the Year" to one of Time's most influential people in the world, Biz Stone represents different things to different people. But he is known to all as the creative, effervescent, funny, charmingly positiv
Made In Japan: Akio Morita And Sony
Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura · 352 pages
Alibaba's World: How a Remarkable Chinese Company is Changing the Face of Global Business
Porter Erisman
The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
Michael Lewis · 268 pages
" ... describes a vast paradigm shift in American culture: a shift away from conventional business models and definitions of success, and toward a new way of thinking about the world and our control over it. The rules of American capitalism--how money is raised, how the spoils are divided--have been drastically rewritten according to a single entrepreneur's vision of the future of the Internet ...
Summary of Shoe Dog
Instaread Summaries · 30 pages
Shoe Dog By Phil Knight & Intelligent Investor By Benjamin Graham 2 Books Collection Set
Phil Knight, Benjamin Graham
Shark Tales: How I Turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business
Barbara Corcoran, Bruce Littlefield
The inspiring true story of Shark Tank star Barbara Corcoran and her best advice for anyone starting a business. After failing at twenty-two jobs, Barbara Corcoran borrowed $1000 from a boyfriend, quit her job as a diner waitress, and started a tiny real estate office in New York City. Using the unconventional lessons she learned from her homemaker mom, she gradually built it into a $6 billion bus
The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal
Ben Mezrich · 260 pages
The fast-paced story of two Ivy-League outcasts who concocted a scheme to meet girls, and ended up inventing FacebookAt Harvard, social acceptance and success with the opposite sex had to be applied for. In the absence of family money or innate charisma, misfit and maths prodigy Eduardo Saverin dreamed of joining one of Harvard's elite Final clubs. His best friend, painfully shy computer genius Ma
Driven: An Autobiography
Larry H. Miller, Doug Robinson · 343 pages
Written during the months before his death, Miller tells his inspiring story, sharing lessons--painful as well as joyful lessons--he has learned from his experiences. Includes a moving foreword by Utah Jazz great John Stockton and an epilogue written by Gail Miller, Larry's wife.
It Happened In India: The Story of Pantaloons, Big Bazaar, Central and the Great Indian Consumer
Kishore Biyani, Dipayan Baishya · 268 pages
Autobiography of an Indian entrepreneur who revolutionized retail trade in India.