Episode · Lenny's Podcast · 2025-01-09
Lenny Rachitsky & Drew Houston: books mentioned on Lenny's Podcast
Behind the founder: Drew Houston (Dropbox)
Drew Houston is the co-founder and CEO of Dropbox. Under his leadership, Dropbox has grown from a simple idea to a service used by over 700 million registered users globally, with a valuation exceeding $9 billion.
Drew Houston recommended Playing to Win by A.G. Lafley and others, High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove, Zone to Win by Geoffrey A. Moore, and The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership by Diana Chapman and others, and discussed Guerrilla Marketing by Jay Conrad Levinson.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Guerrilla Marketing
Discussed“and that was an idea I'd read from that was inspired by a book called guerilla marketing that I had read which is basically how to do marketing if you have no money”
Where to get it
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Playing to Win
Recommended“and you know Commodities uh so this's a great book by AG Lafley and Roger Martin called playing to win Roger been on the podcast yeah Rogers I'm a huge fan of Rogers”
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High Output Management
Recommended“and I've been a big fan of Andy's hopa management uh is a another great book of his which is my introduction to management Lisa theory of management so just love that book”
Where to get it
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Zone to Win
Recommended“um so it's a great book Zone to win that talks about some of this what what needs to happen internally by Jeffrey Moore”
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The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership
Recommended“um and there's a great book on that mindset stuff the 15 principles of conscious leadership Diana and some co-authors and she's she's been a coach and friend of mine she's amazing and has really helped me on that front”
Where to get it
