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Evidence details6 books for your summer list--straight from my network
Hoffman published a LinkedIn summer reading list and included AI for Good.
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LinkedIn · 2026-06-17 · accessed 2026-06-22
Social post · LinkedIn summer reading list
Hoffman's LinkedIn article is authored by Reid Hoffman, says reading good books helps him navigate technological change, and lists AI for Good as one of six books for the summer list.
Evidence details6 books for your summer list--straight from my network
Hoffman published a LinkedIn summer reading list and included Eric Ries's Incorruptible.
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LinkedIn · 2026-06-17 · accessed 2026-06-22
Social post · LinkedIn summer reading list
Hoffman's LinkedIn article is authored by Reid Hoffman, says reading good books helps him navigate technological change, and lists Incorruptible as one of six books for the summer list.
Evidence details6 books for your summer list--straight from my network
Hoffman published a LinkedIn summer reading list and included Mark Pincus's Life at the Speed of Play.
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LinkedIn · 2026-06-17 · accessed 2026-06-22
Social post · LinkedIn summer reading list
Hoffman's LinkedIn article is authored by Reid Hoffman, says reading good books helps him navigate technological change, and lists Life at the Speed of Play as one of six books for the summer list.
Evidence details6 books for your summer list--straight from my network
Hoffman published a LinkedIn summer reading list and included Ortiz's War.
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LinkedIn · 2026-06-17 · accessed 2026-06-22
Social post · LinkedIn summer reading list
Hoffman's LinkedIn article is authored by Reid Hoffman, says reading good books helps him navigate technological change, and lists Ortiz's War as one of six books for the summer list.
The event is private, but since I was impressed by Michael's latest book, Play Nice But Win, I want to share some of my thoughts about it with a wider audience.
Evidence details6 books for your summer list--straight from my network
Hoffman published a LinkedIn summer reading list and included The Joy of Money.
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LinkedIn · 2026-06-17 · accessed 2026-06-22
Social post · LinkedIn summer reading list
Hoffman's LinkedIn article is authored by Reid Hoffman, says reading good books helps him navigate technological change, and lists The Joy of Money as one of six books for the summer list.
Evidence detailsWhy Mark Zuckerberg wants everyone to read about the lab that has won the most Nobel Prizes
Business Insider reported Zuckerberg's twenty-first A Year of Books pick and quoted his Facebook explanation for choosing The Idea Factory.
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Business Insider · 2015-11-09 · accessed 2026-06-20
Article · Reported Facebook book club recommendation
Business Insider reported that Zuckerberg chose The Idea Factory for A Year of Books and quoted his personal Facebook explanation about being interested in the people, questions, and environments that cause innovation.
Evidence detailsWhy Mark Zuckerberg wants everyone to read this book that caused a sensation in China
Business Insider reported Zuckerberg's twentieth A Year of Books pick and quoted his Facebook explanation for choosing The Three-Body Problem.
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Business Insider · 2015-10-21 · accessed 2026-06-20
Article · Reported Facebook book club recommendation
Business Insider reported that Zuckerberg chose The Three-Body Problem for A Year of Books and quoted his personal Facebook explanation that the novel would be a fun break from heavier economics and social science books.
Evidence detailsTobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuable
Lütke says he keeps copies of Meditations in most rooms, opens one at random, and often finds it relevant to what he is working through. This row records his sustained personal endorsement without presenting a paraphrase as a quotation.
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The Knowledge Project · 2026-09-15 · accessed 2026-09-27
Video · Official Knowledge Project interview recording
Direct captions around 01:01:54–01:04:23: Lütke identifies himself as a Meditations fan, says he keeps copies in several rooms, and describes opening the book at random. The existing work-level title is matched to Open Library OL1317211W.
Evidence detailsBen Horowitz Transcript - The Tim Ferriss Show
Horowitz named The Black Jacobins when Tim Ferriss asked what books he would give a first-time founder dealing with company complexity.
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Tim Ferriss · 2019-11-12 · accessed 2026-06-23
Transcript · Podcast transcript
In the transcript, Ferriss asks what books Horowitz would give a first-time founder; Horowitz says he has recommended The Black Jacobins for years and frames it as a leadership book.
Evidence detailsPeter Thiel on Stagnation, Innovation, and What Not To Name Your Company
Tyler Cowen asked Thiel for his favorite novel; after naming The Lord of the Rings, Thiel named Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita as the more intellectual answer.
Evidence detailsWould You Ditch All This Chaos for a Country in the Cloud?
WIRED's profile of Balaji Srinivasan attributes the book to a Thiel recommendation; the row stays a reported citation because the article does not quote Thiel directly.
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WIRED · 2022-09-06 · accessed 2026-06-21
Article · Reported recommendation
WIRED reports that Srinivasan would talk about The Sovereign Individual, a book recommended to him by Thiel.
Reading list · Official a16z attributed reading list
The section headed Chris Dixon directly names this book and praises it. Only his section is used; recommendations by other contributors are not attributed to him.
Graham names Clark’s Civilisation in his positive history-reading list. The list is the same original RAQs event as his Franklin selection; no endorsed edition is inferred.
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Paul Graham · undated · accessed 2026-10-02
Article · Original written source
Graham names Clark’s Civilisation in his positive history-reading list. The list is the same original RAQs event as his Franklin selection; no endorsed edition is inferred.
Original written interview’s reader-facing impact list; he also describes applying uninterrupted-work practices. This is not a favorite-book ranking or validation of the book’s claims.
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The CEO Library · undated · accessed 2026-10-01
Interview · Original written interview
Original first-person Q&A conducted by this publisher, not an aggregated recommendation page; undated rather than inferring a date from a book promotion.
The first-person impact-list answer names this book. It is one interview event shared with Deep Work, not another independent event or a favorite ranking.
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The CEO Library · undated · accessed 2026-10-02
Interview · Original written source
The first-person impact-list answer names this book. It is one interview event shared with Deep Work, not another independent event or a favorite ranking.
Evidence detailsEpisode 666: Books for SaaS Founders
Conditional recommendation in his named interview turn: useful when actively working on positioning, within a just-in-time approach to learning. Not a direction that every founder read it immediately.
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Startups for the Rest of Us · 2023-06-20 · accessed 2026-10-01
Podcast · Original host-published transcript
Named Derrick speaker attribution inspected separately from cohost Rob Walling’s selections. Published June20, recorded June7. No audio corroboration or purported verbatim quote. Conditional on actively working on positioning; his just-in-time reading approach is retained.
Reading list · Official a16z attributed reading list
The section headed Martin Casado names this book and positively assesses it in the reader-facing reading list. Other contributors’ picks are not attributed to him.
Reading list · Official a16z attributed reading list
The section headed Martin Casado names this book and positively assesses it in the reader-facing reading list. Other contributors’ picks are not attributed to him.
Reading list · Official a16z attributed reading list
The section headed Martin Casado names this book and positively assesses it in the reader-facing reading list. Other contributors’ picks are not attributed to him.
Evidence detailsPraise for Disciplined Entrepreneurship Startup Tactics
Attributed publisher endorsement; no claim of an independent review or undisclosed payment arrangement.
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John Wiley & Sons · undated · accessed 2026-10-01
Book · Publisher endorsement
Original Wiley sample, PDF page 4, attributes an explicit recommendation to Randolph. The endorsement is undated; 2024 identifies the book edition, not the endorsement date. Paul Cheek is the author; Bill Aulet contributed the foreword.
The official book README attributes to Jensen Huang a reader-facing endorsement saying the book deserves attention from anyone wanting to understand deep learning.
Evidence detailsDive into Deep Learning: official README endorsements
Author-hosted promotional endorsement with reader-facing guidance, accepted by independent preliminary source review. This does not make Huang an AI researcher or imply endorsement of every later online revision.
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Dive into Deep Learning authors · undated author-hosted endorsement · accessed 2026-10-05
Article · Author-hosted attributed endorsement
The official book README attributes to Jensen Huang a reader-facing endorsement saying the book deserves attention from anyone wanting to understand deep learning.
Evidence detailsKen Griffin says young grads who are not interested in reading books about their field have 'picked the wrong career'
Business Insider reported Griffin's recommendation from an S&P Global interview about reading and career learning.
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Business Insider · 2025-06-25 · accessed 2026-06-20
Article · Reported interview recommendation
The article reports that Griffin named Good to Great as his book recommendation for anyone starting a career, attributes the interview context to S&P Global, and summarizes Griffin's reason as business-building lessons.
Evidence details#384 Ken Griffin: Founder of Citadel and Citadel Securities
The public episode metadata says the host transcribed Griffin's Yale talk and read Hardball for additional context; no exact Griffin quote is displayed in the catalog from this source.
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Apple Podcasts and the Founders RSS metadata describe episode #384 as based on a transcribed Yale talk by Ken Griffin and state that the host read Hardball as the book Ken recommends.
Positive assessment in his own reading note; no claim that it is his favorite or that he used explicit recommendation wording.
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Marc Randolph · 2026-03-24 · accessed 2026-10-01
Article · Own reading note
Own dated reading note positively evaluates this book beyond F1 enthusiasts. This is a favorable reading assessment, not an explicit instruction to buy. Current reading and negative reviews are excluded.
Great partnerships are what drive real change. So it’s wonderful that Partnering – Jean Oelwang’s brilliant new book on the power of partnership – has arrived.
Evidence detailsPartnering: The power of partnership
Branson introduced Jean Oelwang's book on the Virgin site in a close Virgin context: Oelwang was founding CEO and President of Virgin Unite, Branson had worked with her for years, and Branson was interviewed in the book.
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Virgin · 2022-12-08 · accessed 2026-06-22
Article · Authored book note
Branson calls Partnering Jean Oelwang's brilliant new book and says it is a refreshing antidote to a disconnected and divided world; the source also discloses Oelwang's Virgin Unite role and Branson's long working relationship with her.
Explicit reading suggestion in his own original post. No preferred edition or advance-copy arrangement is asserted.
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Brian Armstrong · 2024-01-10 · accessed 2026-10-01
Social post · Own original post
The original post predates the publisher’s January 30, 2024 release. The publisher documents that author Chris Dixon has invested in Coinbase, which Armstrong co-founded. This business relationship is disclosed without inferring payment for the endorsement.
Dyson selected the book on his BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs episode. The BBC page appears to misspell the canonical subtitle and author name; the catalog book record uses Open Library metadata for Mort Rosenblum's Olives: The Life and Lore of a Noble Fruit.
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BBC Radio 4 · 1999-06-20 · accessed 2026-06-22
Interview · Desert Island Discs book choice
The BBC episode page for James Dyson's Desert Island Discs lists the book choice as Olives: The Life and Love of a Noble Fruit by Mort Rosenslum; Open Library identifies the canonical edition as Mort Rosenblum's Olives: The Life and Lore of a Noble Fruit.
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