Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
This is a book about the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.
Walter Isaacson • Steve Jobs
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose,
Brad Stone • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Jake Singer • Zillow and the Innovator's Dilemma - The Flywheel
Remarkably, it is wholly owned by Craig Newmark and Jim Buckmaster, who are two of the most understated billionaires in tech.
Andrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
Marc Benioff • Trailblazer: The Power of Business as the Greatest Platform for Change
No place on earth is more baby-boomerish than Silicon Valley, and Jobs was its avatar: a CEO who wore jeans and emitted a “reality distortion field,” a sentimental, countercultural romantic who was also a ruthless mogul, a forever-young tinkerer dedicated to erasing the old distinctions between tools and toys, work and play.
Doug Menuez • Fearless Genius: The Digital Revolution in Silicon Valley 1985-2000
Marketing and Advertising
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
JEFF BEZOS Founder and CEO, Amazon; Owner, the Washington Post