Tech Books

Learn about companies and CEOs

• Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac
• An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination by Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang
• Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire by Brad Stone
• The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley by Jimmy Soni
• Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
• Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork by Reeves Wiedeman
• The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion by Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell
• In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy
• Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace
• No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram by Sarah Frier
• Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
• Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener
• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
• No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer
• Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton
• The Soul of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder
• The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson
• That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea by
• The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
• The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story by Michael Lewis

Learn about building businesses

• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz
• What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture by Ben Horowitz
• The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects by Andrew Chen
• Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell
• Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies by Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh
• Masters of Scale: Surprising Truths from the World's Most Successful Entrepreneurs by Reid Hoffman
• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel with Blake Masters
• High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups From 10 to 10,000 People by Elad Gil
• The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
• Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle
• Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers by Geoffrey A. Moore
• Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs by John Doerr
• The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton M. Christensen
• The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth by Clayton M. Christensen
• The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You by Julie Zhuo
• High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove

Learn about design

• The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
• Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal with Ryan Hoover
• Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug
• User Friendly- How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play by Cliff Kuang with Robert Fabricant
• The Best Interface Is No Interface by Krishna Golden
• About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design by Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, David Cronin, Christopher Noessel
• Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days by Jake Knapp with John Zeratsky and Braden Kowitz
• The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design by Roman Mars and Kurt Kohlstedt
• Change by Design, Revised and Updated: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation by Tim Brown