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Jason Calacanis’s book recommendations in 2020

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E1155: Daryl Morey on his eventful 2020, adapting to paradigm shifts, taking the Sixers job, building a winning organization & more

This Week in Startups · 2020-12-22

Moneyball by Michael Lewis · discussed · at 22:54

E1152: Keith Rabois on leaving Silicon Valley for Miami, Roaring Twenties 2.0, IPO spree & more

This Week in Startups · 2020-12-15

Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss · book club pick · at 23:38

E1150: Creating a better presentation software, competing with PowerPoint, Keynote & Google Slides & achieving great design with Pitch CEO Christian Reber | Rising Stars of SaaS 9

This Week in Startups · 2020-12-09

No Rules Rules: Netflix and the culture of reinvention by Reed Hastings · discussed · at 1:02:01

E1149: Brad Feld on building startup communities, reconciling anxiety as an early-stage investor & remembering Tony Hsieh

This Week in Startups · 2020-12-08

The Startup Community Way by Brad Feld · discussed · at 25:06

E1148: Apps Without Code Founder & CEO Tara Reed teaches aspiring entrepreneurs how to bootstrap startups to profitability

This Week in Startups · 2020-12-04

No Rules Rules: Netflix and the culture of reinvention by Reed Hastings · recommended · at 33:47

E1147: "Godfather of SaaS" Jason Lemkin on 2020's cloud software boom, public CEO mindsets, how Zoom conquered the competition & more | Rising Stars of SaaS 8

This Week in Startups · 2020-12-02

No Rules Rules: Netflix and the culture of reinvention by Reed Hastings · recommended · at 1:07:19

E1146: LAUNCH Accelerator Cohort 19 founders reflect on their journeys thru the program: Blush (custom illustration tool), Palabra (no-code email automation) & Rolebot (AI hiring platform)

This Week in Startups · 2020-12-02

Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss · discussed · at 11:09

E1142: Emergency Pod! Jason breaks down & ranks his top 4 IPO candidates: Airbnb, Affirm, Robinhood & Roblox!

This Week in Startups · 2020-11-21

The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger · recommended · at 26:35

E1135: Density CEO Andrew Farah on launching the Open Area sensor, $51M Series C, impact of increasing spatial efficiency, risk-taking & more

This Week in Startups · 2020-11-06

How Innovation Works by Matt Ridley · recommended · at 47:56
Where good ideas come from by Steven Johnson · recommended · at 47:56

Best of This Week in Startups: Week of October 26th, 2020

This Week in Startups · 2020-10-31

Billion Dollar Loser by Reeves Wiedeman · recommended · at 0:00

E1130: "Billion Dollar Loser" Author Reeves Wiedeman on WeWork's epic rise & crazy collapse, Adam Neumann's unique behavior, hypocrisy, red flags & more

This Week in Startups · 2020-10-27

Billion Dollar Loser by Reeves Wiedeman · discussed · at 0:56

E1126: Capital Allocators Host Ted Seides goes deep on endowments, LP turnover, public/private market insights, ESG investing & more

This Week in Startups · 2020-10-20

The Myth of Capitalism by Jonathan Tepper · discussed · at 1:21:44
The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel · recommended · at 1:22:34

E1113 The Next Unicorns E19: Loom CEO Joe Thomas is building video for work, shares insights on creating new behaviors, support as a competitive advantage & more

This Week in Startups · 2020-09-23

The Hot Hand by Ben Cohen · book club pick · at 1:09:59

Best of This Week in Startups: Week of September 14th, 2020

This Week in Startups · 2020-09-18

The Making of Prince of Persia by Jordan Mechner · recommended · at 11:01

E7: California's collapse, how SPACs are opening the markets for growth stocks & more

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · 2020-09-09

The Fish That Ate the Whale by Rich Cohen · recommended · at 1:15:38
I Love Capitalism! by Ken Langone · recommended · at 1:15:43

E1101: News! Apple vs. Epic Games, TikTok CEO resigns, SPACs, Unicorn IPOs & more with Acquired's Ben Gilbert & David Rosenthal

This Week in Startups · 2020-08-28

I Love Capitalism! by Ken Langone · recommended · at 3:52
The Hot Hand by Ben Cohen · recommended · at 5:05
The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger · recommended · at 8:21

Best of This Week in Startups: Week of August 17th, 2020

This Week in Startups · 2020-08-22

Rework by Jason Fried · discussed · at 16:18

E1099: Basecamp Co-Founder Jason Fried on building Hey, making email exciting again, Hey vs. Apple & more

This Week in Startups · 2020-08-21

Rework by Jason Fried · discussed · at 21:09

E1094: Thrasio Co-CEO Josh Silberstein acquires & operates 60+ Amazon brands, shares insights on mastering the marketplace, competing with AmazonBasics & more

This Week in Startups · 2020-08-11

Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss · recommended · at 36:46

E1089 The Next Unicorns E11: insitro CEO Daphne Koller is revolutionizing drug discovery via machine learning & data, shares insights on remote education from time at Coursera & more

This Week in Startups · 2020-07-29

The Lean Startup by Eric Ries · discussed · at 8:48

E1080: Arlan Hamilton on launching Backstage Crowd, disrupting VC with syndicates, how the tech industry can be better for underrepresented founders & more

This Week in Startups · 2020-06-26

It's About Damn Time by Arlan Hamilton · recommended · at 5:39

E1078 Pomp Podcast Crossover: Anthony "Pomp" Pompliano on most exciting crypto projects, Hey vs. Apple, Robinhood/Barstool traders, Zuck vs. Bezos, Jason's Bitcoin position & more!

This Week in Startups · 2020-06-23

Rework by Jason Fried · discussed · at 1:04:45

E1077: "Alchemy" Author Rory Sutherland on the Darwinian approach to business, analyzing outliers, why eccentric CEOs have a psychological advantage with customers & more!

This Week in Startups · 2020-06-19

The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger · book club pick · at 2:34
The Fish That Ate the Whale by Rich Cohen · book club pick · at 2:37
Alchemy by Rory Sutherland · discussed · at 2:48
Zero to One by Peter Thiel · discussed · at 43:15

E1076: The Power of Accelerators E9 Sunny Madra, Head of Ford X on innovating mobility for a post-COVID world, going from idea to product at a large corporation & more

This Week in Startups · 2020-06-18

Alchemy by Rory Sutherland · recommended · at 29:55

E1071 Ask Jason: Black Lives Matter, Post-COVID tech hubs, Founder/VC disputes, bringing manufacturing back to the US, pre-selling SaaS products & more

This Week in Startups · 2020-06-05

Angel by Jason Calacanis · discussed · at 30:05

E1070: The Power of Accelerators E7 Ravi Belani, Managing Director of Alchemist Accelerator on why the best entrepreneurs love the process, risk-taking, sourcing & investing in Justin.tv at DFJ & more

This Week in Startups · 2020-06-03

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho · discussed · at 3:18

E1062: News Roundtable! Acquired.FM Co-Hosts Ben Gilbert & David Rosenthal on Clubhouse's pre-launch $100M valuation, Joe Rogan to Spotify, Uber layoffs, food delivery wars, Facebook buys GIPHY & more!

This Week in Startups · 2020-05-20

The Lean Startup by Eric Ries · discussed · at 1:22:30
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou · discussed · at 1:22:33

E1054: The Power of Accelerators E3 Siobhan Dullea, CEO of MassChallenge on running a non-profit accelerator, accepting hundreds of companies per year, what makes a great application, why East Coast investors are more conservative & more!

This Week in Startups · 2020-05-06

The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb · recommended · at 1:00:43

E1053: Ask Jason! Catching‌ ‌an‌ ‌investor's‌ ‌eye‌ ‌with‌ ‌a‌ ‌cold‌ ‌email‌, what founders/investors often overlook during pitches, COVID's impact on Jason's deal flow, domain name hacks & more!

This Week in Startups · 2020-05-05

Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull · recommended · at 22:23
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight · recommended · at 22:30
The Lean Startup by Eric Ries · recommended · at 22:32
Good to Great by Jim Collins · recommended · at 22:47
The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger · book club pick · at 23:08
Angel by Jason Calacanis · recommended · at 23:28

E1052: Range CEO & Co-Founder Dan Pupius shares best practices on building culture as a remote team, insights from working on Google+, importance of asynchronous communication on distributed teams, Holacracy & more!

This Week in Startups · 2020-05-02

Pattern Recognition by William Gibson · discussed · at 46:36
All Tomorrow's Parties by William Gibson · discussed · at 46:36
Radical Candor by Kim Malone Scott · discussed · at 52:34

AMA 1: freeCodeCamp's Quincy Larson answers founder and developer questions

This Week in Startups · 2020-04-30

Cracking the Coding Interview by Chinmoy Mukherjee · recommended · at 6:55

E1051: The Power of Accelerators E2 Cameron Teitelman, Founder & Chairman of StartX on optimizing Stanford's entrepreneurial landscape, thesis on peer-support groups' correlation to founder success, why growth-stage founders join StartX & more!

This Week in Startups · 2020-04-29

The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger · book club pick · at 39:19

E1047: Ask Jason Slack Special! Sourcing talent during a crisis, building strong culture & motivating remote teams, investing in distributed startups, importance of market timing & more!

This Week in Startups · 2020-04-22

The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger · discussed · at 12:07

E1045: 15Five CEO & Co-Founder David Hassell shares insights on remote work: transitioning from in-person to remote, tips for keeping employees engaged, defining trust & more!

This Week in Startups · 2020-04-15

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl · discussed · at 9:26

E1044: Ask Jason! Starting a company in an economic crisis, bringing on & compensating startup advisors, scaling diligence as an angel investor, Jason's thoughts on solving the unemployment surge & more!

This Week in Startups · 2020-04-10

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie · discussed · at 17:44

E1041: The Lean Startup's Eric Ries gives tactical advice for founders during an economic downturn: obligations of leadership, extending runway, handling layoffs with grace, finding new revenue opportunities, capitalizing on silver-linings & more!

This Week in Startups · 2020-04-01

The Lean Startup by Eric Ries · recommended · at 28:59

E1040: Figma CEO & Co-Founder Dylan Field shares insights on crucial moments in Figma's creation, overcoming SaaS burnout, active vs. passive user-pricing, getting Greylock & Sequoia to invest after they initially passed & more!

This Week in Startups · 2020-03-27

Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb · discussed · at 48:23
The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb · discussed · at 48:37

How Does Angel Investing Work? - Jason Calacanis - #154

Modern Wisdom · 2020-03-26

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty · recommended · at 1:01:38

E38: "Angel" Podcast: David Cowan, Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners shares insights on owning up to his anti-portfolio, understanding sunk cost, top traits for becoming a VC & best Founders & CEOs he's ever worked with

This Week in Startups · 2020-03-18

The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis · discussed · at 51:58

E1037: LAUNCH Accelerator Class 16 Founders of BasicBlock (payment solution for truckers), DaoCloud (lead-gen for health & wellness practitioners) & Lately (AI-powered social media writing software) reflect on their journeys through the program

This Week in Startups · 2020-03-17

The Lean Startup by Eric Ries · recommended · at 1:08:16

E1036: #AskJason Special! When to join a startup to maximize equity & job security, types of companies that will thrive in an economic downturn, legendary founder & investor traits, tips for starting a podcast & more!

This Week in Startups · 2020-03-13

Range by David J. Epstein · discussed · at 43:01

E37: "Angel" Podcast: Nicole Quinn, Partner at Lightspeed shares benefits of celebrity founders like Lady Gaga & Gwyneth Paltrow, insights on investing in consumer & power of "Force of Nature" product people

This Week in Startups · 2020-03-11

Choose Your Own Adventure - Ghost Hunter by Edward Packard · discussed · at 34:04
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien · discussed · at 35:06

E1034: Formlabs CEO & Co-Founder Max Lobovsky shares insights on hitting $100M in revenue as a 3D printing platform, most lucrative use cases, growing organically, best 3D printing examples in science fiction

This Week in Startups · 2020-03-06

Being Digital by Nicholas Negroponte · discussed · at 37:54

E1029: Basecamp Co-Founder & Author David Heinemeier Hansson (@DHH) debates Jason on reining in capitalism, benefits of state-run education & healthcare, big-tech disappointments, work-from-home paradigm shift, wealth tax & more!

This Week in Startups · 2020-02-18

It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried · recommended · at 1:18
Rework by Jason Fried · recommended · at 2:16:13

E1028: Laura Huang, author of "Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage" shares insights on overcoming disadvantages to create an edge, being bitter vs. getting better, structural bias in tech & more

This Week in Startups · 2020-02-14

Edge by Laura Huang · recommended · at 1:17

E33: "Angel" Podcast: Dan Rose, Chairman at Coatue Management is leading a $700M early-stage fund, shares insights on working with Bezos & Zuckerberg during pivotal years at Amazon & Facebook, 100+ angel investments, standout founder traits & more

This Week in Startups · 2020-02-12

Who is Michael Ovitz? by Michael Ovitz · discussed · at 1:10:13

E1027: Orreco CEO & Founder Dr. Brian Moore built a platform that optimizes performance of elite athletes, shares cutting-edge benefits of blood sampling, biomarkers, inflammation reduction, glucose monitoring & more!

This Week in Startups · 2020-02-11

Bad Blood by John Carreyrou · discussed · at 1:15:06

E1026: Cocoon Co-Founders Sachin Monga & Alex Cornell are building an intimate app to connect close circles, share insights on key standout features, raising money as a messaging app, breeding trust via strong domain names, ideal customers & more

This Week in Startups · 2020-02-07

What You Do Is Who You Are by Ben Horowitz · discussed · at 16:34
The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen · discussed · at 31:27

E1022: One Drop CEO & Founder Jeff Dachis helps people with diabetes manage & improve their blood-sugar levels, shares insights on making data actionable, recent strategic partnership with Bayer, issues with US healthcare & potential life-expansion

This Week in Startups · 2020-01-28

Wheat Belly by Summary Station · discussed · at 41:34
Why we get fat by Gary Taubes · discussed · at 41:34

E1021: Bubble Co-CEO & Co-Founder Emmanuel Straschnov built a no-code platform to empower the next generation of programmers, shares insights on bootstrapping to over 300k users, developing skills while scaling & more

This Week in Startups · 2020-01-24

The Lean Startup by Eric Ries · discussed · at 1:16

E1020: CEO/Investor Coach & Author Matt Mochary shares insights on developing his coaching method, understanding & overcoming primal fear, addressing imposter syndrome & more

This Week in Startups · 2020-01-21

The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building by Matt Mochary · recommended · at 1:21:53

Other mentions in 2020 (50: passing, ad reads, own books)