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Jeff Bezos started Amazon by selling books online.
Today he's worth $100+ billion and Amazon is worth $1+ trillion.
Here are 20 books @JeffBezos recommends reading:
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"Built to Last" by Jim Collins
"My favorite business book."
โ€“Jeff Bezos
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"Rework" by Jason Fried & DHH
"[The authors] start fresh and rewrite the rules of business. Their approach turns out to be as successful as it is counter-intuitive."
โ€“Jeff Bezos
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"The Black Swan" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"Argues that people are wired to see patterns in chaos while remaining blind to unpredictable events, with massive consequences."
โ€“Jeff Bezos
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"The Innovator's Dilemma" by Clayton Christensen
"An enormously influential business book whose principles Amazon acted on and that facilitated the creation of the Kindle and AWS."
โ€“Jeff Bezos
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5/
"Sam Walton" by Sam Walton
"I have read [this book]. I have thought a lot about him. There was a lot to admire in the way that he started Walmart."
โ€“Jeff Bezos
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"The Goal" by Eliyahu Goldratt
"Encourages companies to identify the biggest constraints in their operations and then structure their organizations to get the most out of those constraints."
โ€“Jeff Bezos
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"The Blind Watchmaker" by Richard Dawkins
โ€œExtraordinary.โ€
โ€“Jeff Bezos
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8/
"Dune" by Frank
"Iโ€™m a big science-fiction fan. I love [this series]."
โ€“Jeff Bezos
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"Lights Out" by Thomas Gryta
"If youโ€™re looking for some scary bedtime reading [read this]."
โ€“Jeff Bezos
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10/
"Culture" by Iain Banks
[This series is] a huge personal favorite."
โ€“Jeff Bezos
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11/
"Good to Great" by Jim Collins
Bezos phoned the author and invited him to visit the Amazon campus to discuss the core ideas from this book.
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"Creation" by Steve Grand
"Was influential in the creation of Amazon Web Services, or AWS, the service that popularized the notion of the cloud."
โ€“Jeff Bezos
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"A Wrinkle In Time" by Madeleine Lโ€™Engle
"I just remember loving that book.โ€
โ€“Jeff Bezos
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"Lean Thinking" by James Womack
"Calls for a focus on those activities that create value for the customer and the systematic eradication of everything else."
โ€“Jeff Bezos
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โ€œData-Driven Marketing" by Mark Jeffery
โ€œAmazon employees must support all assertions with data, and if the data has a weakness, they must point it out or their colleagues will do it for them.โ€
โ€“Jeff Bezos
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16/
"Memos from the Chairman" by Alan C. Greenberg
Included on Jeff Bezos' list of books that Amazon employees refer to as โ€œJeffโ€™s Reading List.
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"The Sixth Extinction" by Elizabeth Kolbert
Included on Jeff Bezos' list of books that Amazon employees refer to as โ€œJeffโ€™s Reading List.
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"The Mythical Man-Month" by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Included on Jeff Bezos' list of books that Amazon employees refer to as โ€œJeffโ€™s Reading List.โ€
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"The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkein
โ€œI was always a big fan of science fiction โ€“ even from when I was in elementary school, reading various things and loved, of course, The Hobbit and Tolkienโ€™s trilogy.โ€
โ€“Jeff Bezos
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20/
"The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
"My favorite novel. Teaches pain of regret so well you will think you lived it."
โ€“Jeff Bezos
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PS: @JeffBezos if you're reading this, two quick questions:
-About how many books do you read a year?
-Any recent books you really loved?
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