Episode · This Week in Startups · 2021-01-05
Books mentioned on Andy Rachleff on management theory, Reed Hastings' genius, lessons from passing on Netflix & more | E1158
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Andy Rachleff recommended A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton Gordon Malkiel, and discussed Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl and Beyond Entrepreneurship by Jim Collins. Jason Calacanis discussed No Rules Rules: Netflix and the culture of reinvention by Reed Hastings and others, Built to Last by Jim Collins and others, Good to Great by Jim Collins, Great by Choice by Jim Collins and others, and Turning the Flywheel by Jim Collins.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Man's Search for Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E.
Discussed“if you go back to even victor franco and his theories man search for meaning”
Where to get it
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No Rules Rules: Netflix and the culture of reinvention
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer details the radical management philosophy and unconventional corporate culture behind Netflix.
Discussed“she's gonna come on the pod talking about their netflix culture um no rules rules”
Where to get it
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Built to Last
Built to Last by Jim Collins and Jerry I.
Discussed“and then of course you're one of your favorite books and mine built to last becoming a sustainable enterprise”
Where to get it
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Good to Great
Good to Great by Jim Collins is a prominent business and management book that investigates what makes companies transition from being merely good to achieving sustained greatness.
Discussed“and jim collins good to great”
Where to get it
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Beyond Entrepreneurship
Beyond Entrepreneurship by Jim Collins is a foundational business and management guide aimed at helping entrepreneurs build enduring, great companies.
Discussed“but he wrote a book before built to last called i think beyond entrepreneurship”
Where to get it
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Great by Choice
Great by Choice by Jim Collins and Morten T.
Discussed“no no and great by choice”
Where to get it
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Turning the Flywheel
Turning the Flywheel by Jim Collins is a business monographic essay that expands upon the author's famous framework for achieving sustained organizational momentum through compounding small wins.
Discussed“uh came later turning the flywheel”
Where to get it
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A Random Walk Down Wall Street
A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton Gordon Malkiel is a foundational financial text arguing that stock market prices are completely unpredictable and that passive index investing outperforms active stock picking.
Recommended“our chief investment officer bert malkiel really invented the index fund with his book a random walk down wall street”
Where to get it
