Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen is an influential American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer, best known for co-authoring Mosaic, the first widely used web browser, and for co-founding Netscape Communications Corporation.
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Paul Johnson
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The Innovator's Dilemma
Really critical to understanding how this industry works. - Marc Andreessen
Clayton M. Christensen
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Recapturing the Spirit of Enterprise
On how economic systems that encourage aggressive entrepreneurship build the most for the benefit of the most. - Marc Andreessen
George Gilder
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The Fabric of Civilization
The story of technology is a story of human ingenuity, and nowhere is this more clear than in the story of textiles. - Marc Andreessen
Virginia Postrel
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Alexandre Kojève
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James H. Nichols Jr.
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Thinking in Bets
Compact guide to probabilistic domains like poker, or venture capital. - Marc Andreessen
Annie Duke
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War for Eternity
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Benjamin R. Teitelbaum
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An Apology for the Builder
Written in 1685. [...] Some things never change! - Marc Andreessen
Nicholas Barbon
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Believe in People
An unrelenting picture of optimism that's a roadmap for solving our country's biggest problems. - Marc Andreessen
Charles Koch
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Who Is Michael Ovitz?
Learn how to build an empire and transform an industry from the Jedi master of modern Hollywood. - Marc Andreessen
Michael Ovitz
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Hitler
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Ian Kershaw
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Intellectuals and Society
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Thomas Sowell
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A New World Begins
On the French Revolution. - Marc Andreessen
Jeremy D. Popkin
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A Guide to the Good Life
Best (?) walk through the ancient/current philosophy of Stoicism. You can't control other people but you can control yourself, so do that. - Marc Andreessen
William B. Irvine
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But What If We're Wrong?
Wide-ranging meditation on how to think about the reality that we're probably wrong about most things we believe. Hard to read and not emerge humbled. - Marc Andreessen
Chuck Klosterman
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Edison
On perhaps the greatest American builder of all, the builder who brought electricity to us all, Thomas Edison. - Marc Andreessen
Matthew Josephson
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What You Do Is Who You Are
My partner Ben Horowitz has a new book! - Marc Andreessen
Ben Horowitz
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The Guarded Gate
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Daniel Okrent
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Walt Disney
The best biography on Walt Disney. - Marc Andreessen
Neal Gabler
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Mine Were of Trouble
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Peter Kemp
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A Conflict of Visions
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Thomas Sowell
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Born Standing Up
Nothing about his career was an accident, which I thought was fascinating. - Marc Andreessen
Steve Martin
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The Vision of the Anointed
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Thomas Sowell
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The God That Failed
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Richard H. Crossman
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Living with a SEAL
What's it like to train with a Navy SEAL in winter in New York for a whole month? Featuring the truly remarkable American hero David Goggins. - Marc Andreessen
Jesse Itzler
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Days of Rage
How 1960s racial politics descended into 1970s terrorist bombings, thanks to privileged college students breaking very bad. - Marc Andreessen
Bryan Burrough
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The Maverick and His Machine
If you want to read what's it's like to work for someone harsh, read [this book]. He makes all of today's entrepreneurs look like cream puffs. - Marc Andreessen
Kevin Maney
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Conspiracy
Startlingly deep cultural history of conspiracies, examined through the lens of the brutally effective Gawker takedown, with full access to the main players. - Marc Andreessen
Ryan Holiday
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The New Right
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Michael Malice
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The Captive Mind
The definitive work on intellectual life under totalitarianism. - Marc Andreessen
Czeslaw Milosz
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The Courage to Be Disliked
Smash hit in Japan, and easy to see why. Adlerian psychology meets Stoic philosophy in Socratic dialogue. Compelling from front to back. Highly recommend. - Marc Andreessen
Ichiro Kishimi
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A Very Expensive Poison
The astonishing story of the Litvinenko and Perepilichnyy assassinations in the UK; reads like a Lee Child thriller; plenty topical now. - Marc Andreessen
Luke Harding
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The Strange Death of Europe
One perspective on the politics of immgiration in Europe, playing out in real time, e.g. Merkel almost getting deposed days ago. Confusing on multiple levels from US perspective. - Marc Andreessen
Douglas Murray
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Can't Hurt Me
Anytime anybody feels mopey about what's happening in their startup or in their life, this is the book to read to reset all the expectations. - Marc Andreessen
David Goggins
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The Rise and Fall of American Growth
I disagree with the book, but it's a very well written book. - Marc Andreessen
Robert J. Gordon
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The Spider Network
Billions'-esque saga of global financial market manipulation, at mind-boggling scale and hiding in plain sight, by a small cabal of bankers in London. - Marc Andreessen
David Enrich
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Blitzed
One of the craziest books I've ever read; highly recommend. - Marc Andreessen
Norman Ohler
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Shattered
Best (?) book so far on the Democratic side of the 2016 race, most provocatively on the impact of the press coverage of the email hacks on the last stages of the race. - Marc Andreessen
Jonathan Allen
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Extreme Ownership
I hand out more copies of this book than any other. How to take responsibility for yourself and for those around you. Modern Stoicism, as applied in the military, business, and life. - Marc Andreessen
Jocko Willink
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Zero to One
The first book any working or aspiring entrepreneur must read—period. - Marc Andreessen
Peter Thiel
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Devil's Bargain
Best (?) book so far on the Republican side of the 2016 race, and a deep dive into the intellectual origins of Bannonism and to some extent Trumpism. - Marc Andreessen
Joshua Green
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Play Nice But Win
An incredible window into what it’s like to be in a founder’s shoes, and the difficult work of growing a company. - Marc Andreessen
Michael Dell
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Lenin
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Victor Sebestyen
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Private Truths, Public Lies
The book that's had the biggest impact on me. - Marc Andreessen
Timur Kuran
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Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital
Describes a general model for the deployment of new technologies. - Marc Andreessen
Carlota Perez
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History Has Begun
On the country and culture the United States is evolving into, not necessarily decline, but something very different. - Marc Andreessen
Bruno Macaes
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The Rational Optimist
Sparkling explanation of how the economy evolves, producing the glorious cornucopia of goods and services available all around us. How to feel good about the future even in dark times. - Marc Andreessen
Matt Ridley
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Witness
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Whittaker Chambers
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Hitler
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Ian Kershaw
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Only the Paranoid Survive
One of my favorite topics. And so that is also a very good book [I] recommend. - Marc Andreessen
Andrew S. Grove
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A Spy Among Friends
True, chilling saga of straight up, profoundly deep treason and betrayal. Sociopaths in high positions of power and influence. Hair curling. - Marc Andreessen
Ben Macintyre
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The End of History and the Last Man
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Francis Fukuyama
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Golden Gates
On why we can't build in great American cities like San Francisco today and what we need to do about it. - Marc Andreessen
Conor Dougherty
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The Power of Productivity
On how technology-driven productivity growth improves human welfare and creates more jobs and higher wages. - Marc Andreessen
William W. Lewis
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Beyond Good And Evil
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Kill Decision
It'll keep you up late at night. - Marc Andreessen
Daniel Suarez
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The Wizard of Menlo Park
A great biography of Edison. - Marc Andreessen
Randall E. Stross
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More from Less
One of the best books [of 2019]. - Marc Andreessen
Andrew McAfee
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12 Rules for Life
A bracing disassembly and reconstruction of a theory of individual progress in the modern world. - Marc Andreessen
Jordan Peterson
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Behave
Robert Sapolsky's magnum opus on human behavior. - Marc Andreessen
Robert M. Sapolsky
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Lenin on the Train
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Catherine Merridale
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High Output Management
The best book on management ever written. - Marc Andreessen
Andrew S. Grove
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Radical Chic
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Tom Wolfe
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Expert Political Judgment
Is the future knowable, and by whom? All pundits and commentators should publish their prediction track records, yet don't. - Marc Andreessen
Philip E. Tetlock
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Becoming Steve Jobs
In this deeply-researched book, you'll find the most honest portrait of the real Steve Jobs. - Marc Andreessen
Brent Schlender
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Civilian Warriors
The founding and growth of military contractor Blackwater as told by its founder and CEO; newly relevant due to the Mueller investigation. - Marc Andreessen
Erik Prince
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Captivating dive into human decision making, marred by inclusion of several/many? psychology studies that fail to replicate. Will stand as a cautionary tale? - Marc Andreessen
Daniel Kahneman
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All Out War
Inside story of how Britain decided to exit the EU. Economic self-destruction or national liberation? Repercussions to play out for decades. - Marc Andreessen
Sean Parnell
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The Managerial Revolution
Together [with 'The Machiavellians'], the best explanation for the current structure of our society and politics. - Marc Andreessen
James Burnham
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Spain In Our Hearts
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Adam Hochschild
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Hitler
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Ian Kershaw
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Whole Earth Discipline
On why even environmentalists should be pro building, pro cities, pro nuclear, and pro genetic engineering. - Marc Andreessen
Stewart Brand
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The Romance of American Communism
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Vivian Gornick
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How to Decide
Provides exercises for how to decide. - Marc Andreessen
Annie Duke
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Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy
A sobering reexamination of how democratic governments actually make decisions. - Marc Andreessen
Richard Hanania
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The 4-Hour Workweek
[The author] basically takes all of the time management and personal productivity theories of the last 20 to 30 years and pushes them to 11, to paraphrase 'Spinal Tap.' - Marc Andreessen
Tim Ferriss
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Hacks
Visceral, raw, you-are-there recounting of living through the hack attacks and resulting meltdown of the DNC in 2016. - Marc Andreessen
Donna Brazile
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Slugfest
Spellbinding creative and business history of the incredibly imaginative comic book industry in the decades before it ate Hollywood. - Marc Andreessen
Reed Tucker
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The Spanish Civil War
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Hugh Thomas
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Joseph McCarthy
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Arthur Herman
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The Tycoons
On how four great builders of the 19th century built the world we live in today. - Marc Andreessen
Charles R. Morris
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When the Wolves Bite
Wall Street'-esque battle between Bill Ackman and Carl Icahn over unlikely target Herbalife. Sip a delicious Herbal Aloe Shake while reading. - Marc Andreessen
Scott Wapner
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The WEIRDest People in the World
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Joseph Henrich
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Without Their Permission
Software is eating the world and [this book] is your ultimate cookbook. - Marc Andreessen
Alexis Ohanian
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Triumph of the City
How cities drive the development of civilization, by putting people together. Highly relevant to the future of the Internet! - Marc Andreessen
Edward Glaeser
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How to Live
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Sarah Bakewell
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The Second Coming of the KKK
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Linda Gordon
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The Ambassador
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Susan Ronald
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Homage to Catalonia
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George Orwell
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Who We Are and How We Got Here
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David Reich
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The Machiavellians
Together [with 'The Managerial Revolution'], the best explanation for the current structure of our society and politics. - Marc Andreessen
James Burnham
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Chasing Hillary
On the bus/in the plane with the Hillary campaign. Revealing in many dimensions at once, and highly entertaining. Best book on the 2016 campaign so far? - Marc Andreessen
Amy Chozick
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Antifascism
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Paul Gottfried
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Infamous Scribblers
A great articulation of how the news business actually grew up in the US. - Marc Andreessen
Eric Burns
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The Rise of Superman
Startling walk through a series of domains where peak human performance is rising at remarkable rates due to flow state". Thought provoking and then some." - Marc Andreessen
Steven Kotler
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Lindbergh
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A. Scott Berg
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Schulz and Peanuts
Amazing. And, basically, the biographer makes the case that Peanuts was the longest, continuous work of American art ever made. - Marc Andreessen
David Michaelis
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The Network State
[The author] has the highest rate of output per minute of good new ideas of anybody I’ve ever met, and [this book] may be his best. - Marc Andreessen
Balaji Srinivasan
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The Power of the Powerless
The definitive work on practical life under totalitarianism. - Marc Andreessen
Vaclav Havel
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No Offense
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John Murray Cuddihy
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