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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters
Principles of Corporate Finance
Richard A. Brealey, Stewart C. Myers, Franklin Allen
Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives
John C. Hull
Financial Accounting and Reporting
Barry Elliott, Jamie Elliott
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Cal Newport
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear
The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life.
Robin Sharma
The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
Daniel Coyle
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Ben Horowitz
Build a Large Language Model from Scratch
Sebastian Raschka
The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey to Mastery
Andrew Hunt, David Thomas
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Introduction to Algorithms
Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest
Grokking Algorithms: An Illustrated Guide for Programmers and Other Curious People
Aditya Bhargava
Understanding Deep Learning
Simon J.D. Prince
Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective
Kevin P. Murphy
The Algorithm Design Manual
Steven S. Skiena
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
Robert C. Martin
High Output Management
Andrew S. Grove
Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It
Oliver Burkeman
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
Tony Hsieh
High Growth Handbook
Elad Gil
Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist
Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson
The Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It
Scott Kupor
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
John Maynard Keynes
Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
Venture Capital Strategy: How to Think Like a Venture Capitalist
Vernon, Patrick
7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
Hamilton Helmer
Organizational Behavior
David A. Buchanan, Andrzej Huczynski
Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead
Laszlo Bock
ISE Strategic Management: Concepts
Frank Rothaermel
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
Jessica Livingston
The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
Wooden on Leadership
John Wooden, Steve Jamison
Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success
Ken Segall
The Score Takes Care of Itself
Bill Walsh
Calculus
James Stewart
Calculus: Early Transcendentals
Howard Anton, Irl Bivens, Stephen Davis
Calculus
Michael Spivak
Calculus Made Easy
Silvanus P. Thompson, Martin Gardner
Introduction to Linear Algebra
Gilbert Strang
Linear Algebra and Its Applications
David C. Lay
Linear Algebra Done Right
Sheldon Axler
Linear Algebra: A Modern Introduction
David Poole
The Intelligent Investor
Benjamin Graham
A Random Walk Down Wall Street
Burton Malkiel
The Little Book of Common Sense Investing
John C. Bogle
Learning Deep Learning
Magnus Ekman
Principles: Life and Work
Ray Dalio
The McKinsey Way
Ethan M. Rasiel
Playing to Win
A.G. Lafley, Roger L. Martin
Your Strategy Needs a Strategy
Martin Reeves, Knut Haanaes, Janmejaya Sinha
Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies
McKinsey & Company, Tim Koller, Marc Goedhart
An Introduction to Statistical Learning
Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani
Applied Predictive Modeling
Max Kuhn, Kjell Johnson
The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book
Andriy Burkov
Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow
Aurélien Géron
Building LLMs for Production: Enhancing LLM Abilities and Reliability with Prompting, Fine-Tuning, and RAG
Louis-François Bouchard, Louie Peters
Spark – The Definitive Guide: Big data processing made simple
Bill Chambers, Matei Zaharia
Data Pipelines Pocket Reference
James Densmore
Probability Theory: The Logic of Science
E. T. Jaynes
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy
Karl Marx
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
A First Course in Probability
Sheldon Ross
Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course with Examples in R and Stan
Richard McElreath
Introduction to Mathematical Statistics
Robert V. Hogg, Joseph W. McKean, Allen T. Craig
All of Statistics: A Concise Course in Statistical Inference
Larry Wasserman
All You Need to Know About the Music Business
Donald S. Passman
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Robert Sapolsky
Learning and Behavior
Paul Chance
Behavior Modification: What It Is and How To Do It
Garry Martin, Joseph Pear
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
Jonathan Haidt
100M Offers: How To Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No
Alex Hormozi
$100M Leads: How to Get Strangers To Want To Buy Your Stuff
Alex Hormozi
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Malcolm Gladwell
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Chip Heath, Dan Heath
The 1-Page Marketing Plan: Get New Customers, Make More Money, And Stand Out From The Crowd
Allan Dib
The Simple Path to Wealth: Your road map to financial independence and a rich, free life
JL Collins
Toward Rational Exuberance: the Evolution of the Modern Stock Market
B. Mark Smith
The Teenage Investor: How to Start Early, Invest Often & Build Wealth
Tim Olsen
How to Raise a Venture Capital Fund
Winter Mead
Paul Wilmott Introduces Quantitative Finance
Paul Wilmott
The Mathematics of Financial Derivatives: A Student Introduction
Paul Wilmott, Sam Howison, Jeff Dewynne
Trades, Quotes and Prices: Financial Markets Under the Microscope
Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Marc Potters
Stochastic Calculus for Finance I: The Binomial Asset Pricing Model
Steven Shreve
Option Volatility and Pricing: Advanced Trading Strategies and Techniques
Sheldon Natenberg
Security Analysis: Principles and Techniques
Benjamin Graham, David Dodd
The Network State
Balaji Srinivasan
Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
Chris Dixon
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
Clayton M. Christensen
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
The Little Book That Still Beats the Market: A Formula for Winning Investments
Joel Greenblatt
Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
Charles T. Munger
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer
Algorithms
Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne
Advanced Data Structures
Peter Brass
Founding Sales: The Early-Stage Go-To-Market Handbook
Pete Kazanjy
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie