Every book Matt Garman recommended on podcasts

Books recommended by Matt Garman

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   The Goal

   Elle Kennedy · Discussed · 1 episode

   The Goal by Elle Kennedy is a popular business and manufacturing novel structured around the theory of constraints.

   Discussed

   “we read the goal and have read the goal right and so it turns out there's never one constraint there's always just the latest constraint”

   a16z Podcast Building the Cloud for an Agentic World | AWS CEO Matt Garman 2026-10-08 ▶ Play 27:03

   Where to get it

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