John Collison's Book Recommendations
John Collison is the co-founder and President of Stripe, making him one of the youngest self-made billionaires in history. His reading list reflects deep interests in technology, business strategy, and the history of innovation.
306 books recommended
π Books Recommended by John Collison 306
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
"John Collison mentioned this book on Twitter."
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Financial Shenanigans
"I enjoyed this accounting-focused treatment of many major frauds."
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Stuff Matters
"Answers why US chocolate tastes like ground-up newspaper to me."
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Hard Landing
"One of my favorite non-fiction books."
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Elon Musk
"A good read."
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American Kingpin
"An incredible tale."
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Too Big to Fail
"I really liked Too Big to Fail."
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Poor Charlie's Almanack
"Get your copy of Poor Charlie's Almanack, just in time for his centenary!"
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Liftoff
"Doesn't cover Starlink, but I enjoyed Liftoff on the swashbuckling early days of SpaceX"
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Fooled by Randomness
"Uh this is Nassim Taleb's thing in Fool by Randomness. um that we're you know we're oversensitive to the noise."podcast John Collison of Stripe | Silicon Real β
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The PHP Visual Quickstart Guide
"we both learned to um uh code from this book uh the PHP Visual Quickstart Guide by Larry Ullman. uh and Larry actually just joined Stripe uh last week."podcast John Collison of Stripe | Silicon Real β