The books this episode covers
Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters
Jeff Bezos · Reading rank 4 · in 32 other episodes
David calls the book-form shareholder-letter source a gift to the world and describes it as absolutely fantastic.
Cross-episode reference · Dedicated episode · Explicit praise · Founder theme · Reread language
Invent and Wander
Jeff Bezos · Reading rank 18 · in 23 other episodes
David identifies Invent and Wander as the book-form source he used for this episode’s reading of Bezos’s shareholder letters.
Dedicated episode
Books David recommends along the way
Zero to One
Peter Thiel with Blake Masters · Reading rank 5 · in 48 other episodes
David says Zero to One's main theme is that undifferentiated commodity businesses do not make money and connects it to Bezos's retail decision.
Cross-episode reference · Founder theme
Sam Walton
Sam Walton · Reading rank 9 · in 24 other episodes
David says he has read Sam's book multiple times.
Cross-episode reference · Founder theme · Reread language
Poor Charlie's Almanack
Charles T. Munger, edited by Peter D. Kaufman · Reading rank 11 · in 44 other episodes
David uses the book's line about billion-dollar ideas in a history book to explain why studying entrepreneurship matters.
Founder theme
The Everything Store
Brad Stone · Reading rank 12 · in 30 other episodes
David calls The Everything Store absolutely fantastic.
Cross-episode reference · Explicit praise · Founder theme · Reread language
Made in Japan
Akio Morita with Edwin M. Reingold and Mitsuko Shimomura · Reading rank 21 · in 21 other episodes
David calls the autobiography absolutely fantastic.
Cross-episode reference · Explicit praise · Founder theme
My Life and Work
Henry Ford with Samuel Crowther · Reading rank 42 · in 7 other episodes
David says he had just reread Henry Ford's autobiography.
Cross-episode reference · Founder theme · Reread language
What I Learned Before I Sold to Warren Buffett
Barnett C. Helzberg Jr. · Reading rank 312 · in 1 other episode
David draws the business lesson of focusing on controllables from the book's account of building a diamond business through financial panics.
Cross-episode reference · Founder theme
Each note is a short paraphrase of why David brings the book up. Book pages show every piece of evidence and its review status. How ranking works