The book this episode covers
Meet You in Hell
Les Standiford · Reading rank 30 · in 11 other episodes
David highly recommends the book and says it belongs in every entrepreneur's library.
Dedicated episode · Explicit praise · Founder theme · Reread language
Books David recommends along the way
Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters
Jeff Bezos · Reading rank 4 · in 32 other episodes
David draws on Bezos's shareholder-letter framing of technological trends as tailwinds versus headwinds to explain Carnegie's timing.
Cross-episode reference · Founder theme
Hard Drive
James Wallace and Jim Erickson · Reading rank 6 · in 23 other episodes
David calls this Bill Gates biography a fantastic book.
Cross-episode reference · Explicit praise
The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie · Reading rank 49 · in 13 other episodes
Cross-episode reference
Empires of Light
Jill Jonnes · Reading rank 137 · in 6 other episodes
David calls this book fantastic.
Cross-episode reference · Explicit praise
Also mentioned
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