Silicon Valley Thinkers
Ideas from the founders who are building the future.
A curated collection of essential books.
Collection Books
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
by Peter Thiel, Blake Masters
Escape competition by building a unique monopoly that creates the future, rather than incrementally improving the present.
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
by Austin Kleon
Liberate your creativity by embracing influence, remixing your heroes, and doing the work you wish existed.
Creativity, Inc. : Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
by Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace
Building a sustainable culture of innovation requires dismantling unseen barriers to candor and protecting fragile early ideas.
The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age
by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, Chris Yeh
Replaces the broken family metaphor with a tour-of-duty alliance, rebuilding trust through mutual investment and transparent career mapping.
The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
by Eric Ries
Replace wasteful planning with rapid experimentation to discover a sustainable business model before resources run out.
Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead
by Laszlo Bock
Transforming work from a human problem into a designed system of freedom, using data and behavioral science to build organizations where people thrive.
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
by Cal Newport
Reclaim your cognitive capacity to master complex skills and produce rare, valuable work in an economy that rewards depth.