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Every book Garry Tan recommended on podcasts
Key facts
- Garry Tan has recommended or discussed 4 books on podcasts, as of October 28, 2024.
- Garry Tan has talked about books on 3 podcasts, as of October 28, 2024.
- Those books came up in 3 episodes, as of October 28, 2024.
- The 3 books Garry Tan has mentioned in the most episodes, as of October 28, 2024: Founding Sales, The Dollar Crisis and The Fountainhead.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Garry Tan aired on October 28, 2024.
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Across 3 podcasts. Every show Garry Tan appears on, in one place — not just one.
Garry Tan appeared on multiple podcasts, including My First Million, How I Write, and This Week in Startups, to discuss entrepreneurship, venture capital, and his experiences in the technology sector. On My First Million, Tan recommended Pete Kazanjy's book Founding Sales, noting that Y Combinator provides a copy of the book to nearly every founder they work with. While speaking on How I Write, he reflected on reading Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead during his college application process, sharing that it negatively impacted his college essays and made him arrogant at the time. During his appearance on This Week in Startups, Tan discussed his early career working at Palantir for Peter Thiel's hedge fund, mentioning that staff were required to read Richard Duncan's The Dollar Crisis, which he described as a genuinely interesting book. In the same conversation, he also brought up James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg's The Sovereign Individual as another prominent text read during that period to understand economics and fiat currency.
Books recommended by Garry Tan
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Founding Sales
Founding Sales by Pete Kazanjy is a practical guide designed to help startup founders and early-stage entrepreneurs navigate the complexities of building a sales process from scratch.
Recommended“Pete Kazanjy founder sales like that book we give a copy of that to like literally every founder.”
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The Dollar Crisis
Discussed“one of the books they made us all read was this book called the the dollar crisis is actually a really interesting book”
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The Fountainhead
The Fountainhead is Ayn Rand's classic novel exploring individualism, artistic integrity, and the uncompromising architect Howard Roark as he fights against collectivism and societal expectations.
Discussed“funny story though, uh, I distinctly remember reading, uh, The Fountainhead by Anne Rand, and it actually messed up my college essays.”
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The Sovereign Individual
The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg is a visionary late-twentieth-century book that anticipates the decline of the nation-state and the rise of decentralized digital economies, remote work, and cryptocurrencies.
Discussed“the other one that everyone knows to read is the sovereign individual obviously”
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