The Third Door

Alex Banayan was an 18-year-old college freshman when he began trying, from his dorm room, to reach Bill Gates, Lady Gaga and dozens of other highly successful people and learn how their careers began. His account follows the chase, from hacking Warren Buffett's shareholders meeting to pursuing Larry King through a grocery store, and rests on one-on-one interviews with Gates, Maya Angelou, Steve Wozniak, Jane Goodall, Quincy Jones and others. What they share, he concludes, fits a nightclub image: beside the main entrance where most people queue and the VIP door for celebrities, there is always a third way in, reached by leaving the line and finding another route. It became a number one international best seller.

Ali Abdaal mentioned that someone sitting opposite him was reading it on his recommendation.