Whitney Wolfe Herd

Founder and chief executive of Bumble

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Yes, I have. Several different books, but two that we can talk about. Something I’ve always gifted and just kind of held close over the years is the book Shantaram . Have you read Shantaram?

Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 26 June 2018 source ↗

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Chris Dixon American tech entrepreneur, investor
I really like history and I particularly like the era of the Victorian industrial age of like 1850 to 1920 or something. It’s an amazing period where you, I think of it as a period. We had like a hundred Elon Musks. So you had Westinghouse and Edison and Ford and the Wright brothers and Bell and just goes on and on. And you had that period where just the number of incredible inventions during that period. This was in that 50-year period. I mean, the airplane, the car, the photograph, the light bulb, for God’s sake, this amazing book called Empires of Light . It’s the battle between Westinghouse and Edison. It’s really fascinating. It was enterprise sales. They invent the light bulb. Westinghouse has AC, Edison has DC. And just went town to town, selling them and like “Use my system.” And there was this awesome moment at the end. The coup de grâce was Westinghouse built, because the key benefit of AC is it goes farther without losing power. He built this giant plant up at Niagara Falls and then turned the lights on in Buffalo. And it was like this magic act. They all like, like borrowed tons of money. And the other thing that’s cool about them is they were all engineers. It reminds me a lot — and they all started off in the telegraph business, which at the time was sort of the internet of that era. So that was cool. There’s another book. I’m sorry, I have crypto on my brain. I can’t help it. There’s a book I really like called [
Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 28 October 2021 source ↗
Graham Duncan Investor; co-founder of East Rock Capital
Yeah. So in financial markets, I really like this somewhat obscure book called The Aspirational Investor by this guy, Ashvin Chhabra, who runs Jim Simons’ family office. Jim Simons started Renaissance Technologies, which is the dominant quant fund.
Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 1 March 2019 source ↗
Mark Bittman American journalist, food writer
I buy a one-off; I see a book someone will like and I buy that. I have bought Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott for a number of people who’ve told me they were struggling with writing, because I think it’s a really great writing book and it’s a good read anyway.
Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 19 June 2018 source ↗
David Maisel American film producer
The book I recommend to people the most is Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. But I’m not sure that’s —
Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 8 June 2023 source ↗

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