

Founders
David Senra
Learn from history's greatest entrepreneurs. Every week I read a biography of an entrepreneur and find ideas you can use in your work. This quote explains why: "There are thousands of years of history in which lots and lots of very smart people worked very hard and ran all types of experiments on how to create new businesses, invent new technology, new ways to manage etc. They ran these experiments throughout their entire lives. At some point, somebody put these lessons down in a book. For very little money and a few hours of time, you can learn from someone’s accumulated experience. There is so much more to learn from the past than we often realize. You could productively spend your time reading experiences of great people who have come before and you learn every time." —Marc Andreessen
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the Founders podcast:

#1 Mentioned in 37 episodes
Zero to One
Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

#2 Mentioned in 31 episodes
Steve Jobs

#3 Mentioned in 30 episodes
Sam Walton
Made in America

#4 Mentioned in 29 episodes
The fish that ate the whale
The Life and Times of America's Banana King

#5 Mentioned in 26 episodes
Poor Charlie's Almanack
The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

#6 Mentioned in 23 episodes
Confessions of an Advertising Man

#7 Mentioned in 23 episodes
Titan
The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

#8 Mentioned in 23 episodes
The Everything Store
Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

#9 Mentioned in 21 episodes
Invent and Wander
The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos

#10 Mentioned in 20 episodes
Hard Drive
Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire

#11 Mentioned in 20 episodes
The essays of Warren Buffett
Lessons for Corporate America

#12 Mentioned in 18 episodes
Creative Selection
Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs

#13 Mentioned in 18 episodes
Becoming Steve Jobs
The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader

#14 Mentioned in 17 episodes
Ogilvy on Advertising

#15 Mentioned in 17 episodes
Against the Odds: An Autobiography

#16 Mentioned in 16 episodes
A Man for All Markets
From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market

#17 Mentioned in 16 episodes
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

#18 Mentioned in 16 episodes
Shoe Dog

#19 Mentioned in 15 episodes
Against the Odds
An Autobiography by James Dyson

#20 Mentioned in 15 episodes
Total Recall
My Unbelievably True Life Story