Episode · This Week in Startups · 2020-11-06
Jason Calacanis & Andrew Farah: books mentioned on This Week in Startups
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Jason Calacanis recommended How Innovation Works by Matt Ridley and Where good ideas come from by Steven Johnson. Andrew Farah recommended Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull and others and Hard Drive by James Wallace and others, and discussed Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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How Innovation Works
How Innovation Works by Matt Ridley explores the origins of incredible inventions and historical developments, arguing that innovation thrives on freedom and acts as the parent of prosperity.
Recommended“there's a great book called uh um how innovation works um and a companion that's called uh where great where good ideas come from by stephen johnson”
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Where good ideas come from
Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson is an insightful non-fiction book that explores the historical and environmental patterns that foster innovation, such as the concept of the slow hunch and serendipitous collisions.
Recommended“there's a great book called uh um how innovation works um and a companion that's called uh where great where good ideas come from by stephen johnson”
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Creativity, Inc.
Creativity, Inc.
Recommended“or you read um uh you know creativity inc about pixar um which is a dick costello special like you he loves that book”
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Hard Drive
Hard Drive by James Wallace and Jim Erickson is a biography detailing the early years of Microsoft and the relentless rise of Bill Gates.
Recommended“you know if you read like hard drive which is by um which was recommended to me by ilya fishman over at kleiner which is about bill gates in the early years of microsoft”
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Sapiens
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari is a sweeping narrative that traces the evolutionary and historical development of the human species from prehistoric bands to modern civilizations.
Discussed“there's this um sapiens in sapiens there's this great um description about like what are the three most important things that humans have ever invented”
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