Episode · Lenny's Podcast · 2023-09-03
Lenny Rachitsky & Tim Holley: books mentioned on Lenny's Podcast
Inside Etsy’s product, growth, and marketplace evolution | Tim Holley (VP of Product)
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Tim Holley recommended Team of Teams by General Stanley McChrystal and others, Let my people go surfing by Yvon Chouinard, and The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Team of Teams
Recommended“Team of Teams by Stanley McChrystal has been I think it's just A, a really fascinating read and B, it helped me think a lot about how you trust teams and how you think about kind of disseminating decision-making to the right folks”
Where to get it
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Let my people go surfing
Recommended“Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard, the Patagonia founder. Incredibly fascinating read of someone who just had a deep deep passion, turned it into a business, struggled, iterated, came out the other side, you know, really successful.”
Where to get it
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The Power Broker
Recommended“And then in a super different direction, Power Broker by Robert Caro. That is an absolute tome. It is huge. It took me probably an entire year to read cuz I'm an extremely slow reader and or I fell asleep a lot.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Infinite jest
“Do like, you know, a couple of chapters in there at a time. Otherwise it feels insurmountable. It's like Infinite Jest where you just never you're intimidated.”