awesome-ceo

YCombinator Very good starting point

Lenny Rachitsky Great summary

Dropbox

Khosla Ventures 💰

Alex Banks

David S. Rose

Mark Suster

Aditya Agarwal The single hardest question at the pre-seed and seed stage for a founder is knowing whether to persist on the current product or to move on to the next idea

Index Ventures

a16z

Dan Luu

Sam Altman

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Y Combinator

Y Combinator

Sam Altman

Sam Altman

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Marty Cagan Solutions need to be:

Mark Suster

First Round Capital

a16z

Stripe

Lenny Rachitsky

Paul Graham

Keith Rabois

Dan Luu

John Cutler

Nathan Barry

Sequoia Capital

GitLab

📕 - Ben Horowitz Practical advice on how to handle the toughest challenges while building and leading a startup, from laying off employees to dealing with personal crises. How to cultivate a strong company culture and lead with empathy and humility

📕 - Peter Thiel A framework for identifying and developing disruptive ideas that can create new markets and transform industries. A contrarian view on how to build truly innovative startups

📕 - Stephen Covey The title is misleading - because of it I was avoiding this book for years. It's actually very smart and actionable: principles of personal responsibility, proactive action, and continuous improvement. An approach to achieving success and fulfillment, developing strong personal relationships, cultivating a growth mindset, and aligning your actions with a clear sense of purpose

📕 - Stephen Covey Time management and productivity guide. How to overcome procrastination and achieve your most important goals, while balancing your work and personal life, and focusing on the things that truly matter in the long term

📕 - Andrew Chen A framework for building a new network effect startup. Strategies and tactics that successful network effect startups have used to overcome the challenges of building a user base from scratch

📕 - James Clear A framework for building and maintaining good habits and breaking bad ones. How to make small, incremental changes in your daily routines that can lead to long-term success and personal growth

📕 - Daniel Kahneman A framework for improving your decision-making abilities. Our automatic, intuitive "fast" thinking often leads to errors and biases, while our more deliberate and analytical "slow" thinking can help us make better decisions and avoid common pitfalls

📕 - Rob Fitzpatrick A framework for conducting effective customer interviews and building products that people actually want to use. How to validate your ideas without relying on false positives or biased feedback

📕 - Bill Aulet A framework for developing and testing innovative business ideas, from identifying customer needs and segmenting markets, to prototyping and testing solutions, to launching and scaling a successful venture

📕 - Matt Mochary

NfX

foundr

Alex Lieberman