Ranked: The Entrepreneurial Spirit

This is a subjective Ranked version of Intriguing Connections: The Entrepreneurial Spirit


What makes an entrepreneur?  This list of books tries to answer those questions. 


  1. Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
  2. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
  3. The New Farm: Our Ten Years on the Front Lines of the Good Food Revolution by Brent Preston
  4. Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI by Karen Hao
  5. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
  6. The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths by Mariana Mazzucato
  7. A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell
  8. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
  9. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
  10. The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge by Matt Ridley
  11. From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew
  12. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer
  13. Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming by McKenzie Funk
  14. Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  15. Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy by George Gilder
  16. Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable by Seth Godin
  17. Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin
  18. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
  19. Tesla: His Tremendous and Troubled Life by Marko Perko, Stephen M Stahl