Episode · Lenny's Podcast · 2024-06-09
Lenny Rachitsky & Uri Levine: books mentioned on Lenny's Podcast (Jun 2024)
Lessons from a two-time unicorn builder, 50-time startup advisor, and 20-time company board member | Uri Levine (co-founder of Waze)
Uri Levine is the co-founder of Waze, the world’s largest community-based traffic and navigation app, acquired by Google for over $1 billion. He’s also founded nine other companies, been on the board of 20 companies, and advised more than 50 companies.
Lenny Rachitsky discussed Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution by Uri Levine. Uri Levine recommended That Will Never Work by Marc Randolph and Atomic Habits by James Clear.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution
Discussed“it's what your book is called you have a t-shirt that you're wearing right now that you wear in every podcast that says that exactly clearly this lesson has struck a big chord with you”
Where to get it
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That Will Never Work
Recommended“first question what are two or three books that you recommend most to other people other than your own book Mark Randolf of Netflix uh that will never work”
Where to get it
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Atomic Habits
Recommended“so this is definitely a book that I will um I would recommend Atomic habits getting habits in improving them measuring and improving is really really important”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“more recently he wrote a book that summarizes all of his advice for Founders called fall in love with the problem not the solution a handbook for entrepreneurs”
“you know there are tons of advisers in in the book and eventually I will tell even in the hiring process right most of us are going to interview candidates and then decide that they like or dislike the candidate”
“um Steve WN co-founder of Apple wrote the forward to my book and he called that the Bible for entrepreneurs and when I send him the first chapter he said wow I wish I had that when I started”
“if if you weren't on YouTube watching this the book is called fall in love with the problem not the solution if you're trying to Google it and find it on Amazon and uh B thank you so much for being here”