Books Recommended by Bill Gurley
Bill Gurley is an American venture capitalist.
Since 1999, Gurley has been a general partner at Benchmark, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm in San Francisco, and is best known for an early investment in Uber in 2011.
Reading lists by year: 2017
11 books recommended by Bill Gurley
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Most of the other books I’ve read recently you’ve already had podcasts with the authors, like Sapiens I read recently, which I really enjoyed.
The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
Innovator’s Dilemma is probably the most efficient analysis of why startups are able to disrupt. These are books people know about, but entrepreneur should read these things like bibles.
Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers
Crossing the Chasm for enterprise plays you have to read.
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Bad Blood by @JohnCarreyrou is an incredible book that should be read by each and every player in the startup/Silicon Valley ecosystem.
Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure
by Jerry Kaplan
There’s a set of books that I recommend startups read and some of them are basic, but there’s a book called Startup by Jerry Kaplan
The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
Last year I was turned on to an amazing book by Jonathan Gottschall titled The Storytelling Animal.
Catastrophic Care
As I mentioned, the Catastrophic Care by Goldhill I would read on healthcare.
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
One of the most influential books I have ever read is Complexity, a 1993 work by Mitchell Waldrop.
Lean Solutions
by James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones
In their marvelous book, Lean Solutions, James Womack and Daniel Jones unpack what it means to apply the discipline of lean manufacturing to service industries.
