Keith Rabois
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Keith is an American technology executive and investor. He is widely known for his early-stage startup investments and his executive roles at PayPal, LinkedIn, Slide and Square. Rabois invested in Yelp and Xoom prior to each company's initial public offering and sits on both companies' boards of directors.
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The Splendid and the Vile
A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold his country together and p...
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Apr 10, 2020'Wonderful ... Illuminating ... Fun to read' Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow A pioneer of artificial intelligence shows how the study of causality revolutionized science and the world'Correlation does not imply causation.' This mantra was invoked by scientists for decades in order to avoid taking positions as to whether one thing...
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Mar 26, 2020The essential skill of creating and maintaining new businesses—the art of the entrepreneur—can be summed up in a single word: managing. In High Output Management, Andrew S. Grove, former chairman and CEO (and employee number three) of Intel, shares his perspective on how to build and run a company. Born of Grove’s experiences at one of America’s le...
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Feb 11, 2020"A must-read for every American and business leader." --Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief, FORBESFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Unaccountable comes an eye-opening, urgent look at America's broken health care system--and the people who are saving it.One in five Americans now has medical debt in collections and rising health care costs tod...
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Oct 02, 2019Also recommended by
Dave ChaseDrawing from groundbreaking research, psychologist and award-winning teacher Kelly McGonigal, PhD, offers a surprising new view of stress—one that reveals the upside of stress, and shows us exactly how to capitalize on its benefits.You hear it all the time: stress causes heart disease; stress causes insomnia; stress is bad for you! But what if chan...
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Sep 14, 2019Also recommended by
Micah BaldwinThomas Sowell's provocative critique of liberalism's failures The Vision of the Anointed is a devastating critique of the mind-set behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years. Thomas Sowell sees what has happened not as a series of isolated mistakes but as a logical consequence of a vision whose defects have led to disasters in educa...
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Sep 14, 2019From the New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan, a bold new work that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibilityIn his most provocative and practical book yet, one of the foremost thinkers of our time redefines what it means to understand the world, succeed...
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Jul 05, 2019When it comes to recruiting, motivating, and creating great teams, Patty McCord says most companies have it all wrong. McCord helped create the unique and high-performing culture at Netflix, where she was chief talent officer. In her new book, Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility, she shares what she learned there and elsewher...
The science behind the traits and quirks that drive creative geniuses to make spectacular breakthroughsWhat really distinguishes the people who literally change the world--those creative geniuses who give us one breakthrough after another? What differentiates Marie Curie or Elon Musk from the merely creative, the many one-hit wonders among us?Melis...
Rocket Men
The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The riveting inside story of three heroic astronauts who took on the challenge of mankind's historic first mission to the Moon, from the bestselling author of Shadow Divers. "Robert Kurson tells the tale of Apollo 8 with novelistic detail and immediacy."--Andy Weir, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Martian and...
If you're going to read one book about Hollywood, this is the one.As co-founder of Creative Artists Agency (CAA), Michael Ovitz earned a reputation for ruthless negotiation, brilliant strategy and fierce loyalty to his clients. He reinvented the role of the agent and helped shape the careers of hundreds of A-list stars and directors, including Stev...
Churchill by Andrew Roberts
1944 by Jay Winik
The Organized Mind by Daniel J. Levitin
The Success Equation by Michael J. Mauboussin
Deep Medicine by Eric Topol
How Not to Be Wrong by Jordan Ellenberg
Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda
Steve Jobs & the Next Big Thing by Randall E. Stross
Grit by Angela Duckworth
Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark
Swimming Across by Andrew S. Grove
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Leaders by Richard Nixon
Billy Martin by Bill Pennington
The Score Takes Care of Itself by Bill Walsh
Warfighting by United States Marine Corps
The Art of the Start 2.0 by Guy Kawasaki
The New New Thing by Michael Lewis
The Innovator's Solution by Clayton M. Christensen
The Curse of the Mogul by Jonathan A. Knee
Googled by Ken Auletta
Spent by Geoffrey Miller
Hackers & Painters by Paul Graham
Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
Return to the Little Kingdom by Michael Moritz
Planet Google by Randall Stross
Get Back in the Box by Douglas Rushkoff
The Search by John Battelle
The Monk and the Riddle by Randy Komisar
High Growth Handbook by Elad Gil
The Little Kingdom by Michael Moritz