Episode · Lenny's Podcast · 2024-05-05
Lenny Rachitsky & Hamilton Helmer: books mentioned on Lenny's Podcast
Business strategy with Hamilton Helmer (author of 7 Powers)
Hamilton Helmer is one of the world’s leading experts on business strategy and the author of the seminal book 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy, which provides a comprehensive framework for understanding what it really takes to achieve and sustain a competitive advantage.
Lenny Rachitsky discussed 7 Powers by Hamilton Helmer. Hamilton Helmer recommended The Theory of Economic Development by Joseph Alois Schumpeter, The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose, and The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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7 Powers
Discussed“he's the author of seven Powers which outlines a framework for identifying and developing sustainable competitive Advantage it is widely considered to be the best book on strategy”
Where to get it
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The Theory of Economic Development
Recommended“there's a a a famous uh Austrian and eventually American Economist and named Joseph shumpeter who wrote this wonderful book theory of Economic Development way back when over 100 years ago”
Where to get it
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The Road to Reality
Recommended“one book that is extremely wonky but but and I know I can only take it in very small doses but as magnificent as one called the road Reality by Roger Penrose”
Where to get it
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The Gene
Recommended“there's another book boy I wish I could remember the the name maybe you can get the name of the author a book called Jean by this um geneticist and I think it's a Harvard Med School Professor”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged 7 Powers
“only thing I can say is um you know read the book spread the ideas start start your own company those are the things that would make me happy”