Keith Rabois's Book Recommendations
Keith Rabois is a venture capitalist at Khosla Ventures and a member of the PayPal Mafia. He's known for his early-stage investments in companies like YouTube, LinkedIn, and Yelp, as well as executive roles at PayPal, LinkedIn, and Square. Based on his book recommendations, he seems interested in business strategy, technology history, and biographies.
📚 Books Recommended by Keith Rabois 84
High Output Management
"As Warren Buffett says, build a company that idiots could run because eventually they will. So this is what you want. Basically a performance machine that idiots can run. Now as a leader, what is your real job, what's your role? Strictly speaking there is only one book ever written that actually explains how to do this. It's rather old, written in 1982 by Andy Grove, it's quite famous, and successful. And his definition of what your job is, is to maximize the output of the organization."
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The Book of Why
"[One of] two indispensable books of 2018."
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Powerful
"Keith Rabois mentioned this book on Twitter."
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Why We Sleep
"Keith Rabois mentioned this book on Twitter."
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The Vision of the Anointed
"Keith Rabois recommended this book on Twitter."
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The Upside of Stress
"@paulg @rivatez Upside of Stress, Why We Sleep, The Score Takes Care of Itself, The Little Kingdom, Vision of the Anointed."
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The Splendid and the Vile
"Books on Churchill in 1940-1941 take on wholly different meanings during a crisis vs studying during times of peace & prosperity."
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Red Notice
"Amazing read about Russia from 1998-2007."
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Creative Selection
"[One of] two indispensable books of 2018."
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How Not to Be Wrong
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High Growth Handbook
"A great book."
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Who Is Michael Ovitz?
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Quirky
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The Little Kingdom
"[One of three] classic books to read, albeit perhaps with less immediate/practical relevance today."
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The Curse of the Mogul
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Spent
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The Organized Mind
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The Score Takes Care of Itself
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The Monk and the Riddle
"[One of three] classic books to read, albeit perhaps with less immediate/practical relevance today."
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Hackers & Painters
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Swimming Across
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Deep Medicine
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Return to the Little Kingdom
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Churchill
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Sapiens
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1944
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The Innovator's Solution
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The Search
"For a good historical perspective on the evolution of the consumer Internet world."
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Googled
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Steve Jobs & the Next Big Thing
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Get Back in the Box
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"[One of three] classic books to read, albeit perhaps with less immediate/practical relevance today."
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Predictably Irrational
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Rocket Men
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Planet Google
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Grit
"Although the title may make it appear intuitive, the reading is much more insightful and applicable than you might guess."
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Behave
"A bit of a long commitment but worth it. Provocative."
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Life 3.0
"Best introduction to AI, accessible to sophisticated. Enjoyable to read."
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Skin in the Game
"Quite powerful, albeit often redundant."
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Cultural Strategy
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Red Star Over the Pacific
"Required reading in our household."
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Insanely Simple
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The Seventh Sense
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Barbarians at the Gate
"Suggested reading this book this am on stage at Techweek."
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Zero to One
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The Art of the Start
"For a first-time entrepreneur: The Art of the Start is an excellent introduction to many key issues."
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Warfighting
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Andy Grove
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Talent Wins
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The Model Thinker
"Excited to read this. I have been searching for a book to recommend on this topic for a decade."
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How Google Works
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Breath
"Fascinating."
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The Success Equation
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Loonshots
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The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
"Not for everyone but recommend for tech folks."
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The 80/20 Principle and 92 Other Powerful Laws of Nature
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Viral Loop
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An Elegant Defense
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World War 3.0
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The Breakthrough
"It is the experts who created this virus mess. and the experts who suppressed solutions to cancer for a century."
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The Checklist Manifesto
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White
"New reading material deviates from central casting for me."
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Trade-Off
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Drawing Life
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Range
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In the Company of Giants
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Naked Statistics
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7 Powers
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Behind the Cloud
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The Wires of War
"And the book of the year is actually really here."
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Revolution in The Valley
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The Extended Mind
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Go To
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On Intelligence
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things
"Reflects 2000-2003."
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The Intel Trinity
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Radical Uncertainty
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Architects of the Web
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The City in History
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The Method Method
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The pmarca Blog Archives
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The Price We Pay
"If you want to understand why health care is a mess and how to improve it (without making it worse) start by reading this book:"
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Becoming Steve Jobs
"Keith Rabois recommended this book on a Medium blog post."
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