83 Keith Rabois Recommended Books
Keith Rabois is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, and executive. He co-founded and served as a director for Slide Inc. , a social-networking application, and was an executive at PayPal, LinkedIn, Square, and Khosla Ventures. He is currently a Partner at Founders Fund and a board member at numerous companies. Rabois is also a lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business and a recipient of several awards.
83 Books recommended by Keith Rabois
Red Star Over the Pacific
China's Rise and the Challenge to U.S. Maritime Strategy
Author :Toshi Yoshihara
- Keith Rabois"Required reading in our household." - Keith Rabois [Source]
Cultural Strategy
Using Innovative Ideologies to Build Breakthrough Brands
Author :Douglas Holt
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois recommended this book on a Medium blog post. [Source]
Predictably Irrational
The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Author :Dan Ariely
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois recommended this book on Quora. [Source]
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Author :Neil Postman
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois recommended this book on a Medium blog post. [Source]
The Method Method
Seven Obsessions That Helped Our Scrappy Start-up Turn an Industry Upside Down
Author :Eric Ryan
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois recommended this book on a Medium blog post. [Source]
Who Is Michael Ovitz?
Author :Michael Ovitz
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois mentioned this book on Twitter. [Source]
The Little Kingdom
The Private Story of Apple Computer
Author :Michael Moritz
- Keith Rabois"[One of three] classic books to read, albeit perhaps with less immediate/practical relevance today." - Keith Rabois [Source]
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The Score Takes Care of Itself
My Philosophy of Leadership
Author :Bill Walsh
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois recommended this book on a Medium blog post. [Source]
In the Company of Giants
Candid Conversations with the Visionaries of the Digital World
Author :Rama Dev Jager
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois recommended this book on a Medium blog post. [Source]
The pmarca Blog Archives
Author :Marc Andreessen
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois recommended this book on a Medium blog post. [Source]
The Upside of Stress
Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It
Author :Kelly McGonigal
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois recommended this book on a Medium blog post. [Source]
Get Back in the Box
How Being Great at What You Do Is Great for Business
Author :Douglas Rushkoff
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois recommended this book on Quora. [Source]
Why We Sleep
Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Author :Matthew Walker
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois mentioned this book on Twitter. [Source]
Steve Jobs & the Next Big Thing
Author :Randall E. Stross
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois recommended this book on a Medium blog post. [Source]
Architects of the Web
1,000 Days that Built the Future of Business
Author :Robert H. Reid
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois recommended this book on a Medium blog post. [Source]
The Monk and the Riddle
The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living
Author :Randy Komisar
- Keith Rabois"[One of three] classic books to read, albeit perhaps with less immediate/practical relevance today." - Keith Rabois [Source]
Deep Medicine
How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
Author :Eric Topol
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois mentioned this book on Twitter. [Source]
The Model Thinker
What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You
Author :Scott E. Page
- Keith Rabois"Excited to read this. I have been searching for a book to recommend on this topic for a decade." - Keith Rabois [Source]
Rocket Men
The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
Author :Robert Kurson
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois mentioned this book on Twitter. [Source]
The Extended Mind
The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain
Author :Annie Murphy Paul
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois recommended this book on Twitter. [Source]
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
Learning to Learn
Author :Richard W. Hamming
- Keith Rabois"Not for everyone but recommend for tech folks." - Keith Rabois [Source]
Behind the Cloud
The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company-and Revolutionized an Industry
Author :Marc Benioff
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois recommended this book on a Medium blog post. [Source]
Zero to One
Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Author :Peter Thiel
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois recommended this book on a Medium blog post. [Source]
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The Vision of the Anointed
Author :Thomas Sowell
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois recommended this book on Twitter. [Source]
The Breakthrough
Immunotherapy and the Race to Cure Cancer
Author :Charles Graeber
- Keith Rabois"It is the experts who created this virus mess. and the experts who suppressed solutions to cancer for a century." - Keith Rabois [Source]
Revolution in The Valley
The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made
Author :Andy Hertzfeld
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois recommended this book on a Medium blog post. [Source]
The Seventh Sense
Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks
Author :Joshua Cooper Ramo
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois recommended this book on Twitter. [Source]
Barbarians at the Gate
The Fall of RJR Nabisco
Author :Bryan Burrough
- Keith Rabois"Suggested reading this book this am on stage at Techweek." - Keith Rabois [Source]
Swimming Across
A Memoir
Author :Andrew S. Grove
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois recommended this book on a Medium blog post. [Source]
The Curse of the Mogul
What's Wrong with the World's Leading Media Companies
Author :Jonathan A. Knee
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois recommended this book on a Medium blog post. [Source]
World War 3.0
Microsoft and Its Enemies
Author :Ken Auletta
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois recommended this book on a Medium blog post. [Source]
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Author :Ben Horowitz
- Keith Rabois"Reflects 2000-2003." - Keith Rabois [Source]
Planet Google
One Company's Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know
Author :Randall Stross
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois recommended this book on Quora. [Source]
Viral Loop
From Facebook to Twitter, How Today's Smartest Businesses Grow Themselves
Author :Adam L. Penenberg
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois recommended this book on a Medium blog post. [Source]
The Innovator's Solution
Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
Author :Clayton M. Christensen
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois recommended this book on a Medium blog post. [Source]
Insanely Simple
The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success
Author :Ken Segall
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois recommended this book on a Medium blog post. [Source]
The Search
How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture
Author :John Battelle
- Keith Rabois"For a good historical perspective on the evolution of the consumer Internet world." - Keith Rabois [Source]
Andy Grove
The Life and Times of an American
Author :Richard S. Tedlow
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois recommended this book on a Medium blog post. [Source]
On Intelligence
How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines
Author :Jeff Hawkins
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois recommended this book on a Medium blog post. [Source]
Talent Wins
The New Playbook for Putting People First
Author :Ram Charan
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois mentioned this book on Twitter. [Source]
Creative Selection
Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
Author :Ken Kocienda
- Keith Rabois"[One of] two indispensable books of 2018." - Keith Rabois [Source]
An Elegant Defense
The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
Author :Matt Richtel
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois mentioned this book on Twitter. [Source]
How Not to Be Wrong
The Power of Mathematical Thinking
Author :Jordan Ellenberg
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois mentioned this book on Twitter. [Source]
Return to the Little Kingdom
Steve Jobs and the Creation of Apple
Author :Michael Moritz
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois recommended this book on a Medium blog post. [Source]
Drawing Life
Surviving the Unabomber
Author :David Gelernter
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois recommended this book on a Medium blog post. [Source]
The City in History
Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
Author :Lewis Mumford
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois recommended this book on a Medium blog post. [Source]
Troublemakers
Silicon Valley's Coming of Age
Author :Leslie Berlin
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois recommended this book on a Medium blog post. [Source]
The 80/20 Principle and 92 Other Powerful Laws of Nature
The Science of Success
Author :Richard Koch
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois recommended this book on a Medium blog post. [Source]
The New New Thing
A Silicon Valley Story
Author :Michael Lewis
- Keith Rabois"[One of three] classic books to read, albeit perhaps with less immediate/practical relevance today." - Keith Rabois [Source]
The Book of Why
The New Science of Cause and Effect
Author :Judea Pearl
- Keith Rabois"[One of] two indispensable books of 2018." - Keith Rabois [Source]
The Success Equation
Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing
Author :Michael Mauboussin
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois recommended this book on a Medium blog post. [Source]
High Output Management
Author :Andrew S. Grove
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois recommended this book on a Medium blog post. [Source]
The Intel Trinity
How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company
Author :Michael S. Malone
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois recommended this book on a Medium blog post. [Source]
The Splendid and the Vile
A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
Author :Erik Larson
- Keith Rabois"Books on Churchill in 1940-1941 take on wholly different meanings during a crisis vs studying during times of peace & prosperity." - Keith Rabois [Source]
Naked Statistics
Stripping the Dread from the Data
Author :Charles Wheelan
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois recommended this book on a Medium blog post. [Source]
Warfighting
Author :U. S. Marine Corps
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois recommended this book on Quora. [Source]
The Organized Mind
Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
Author :Daniel J. Levitin
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois mentioned this book on Twitter. [Source]
The Art of the Start
The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
Author :Guy Kawasaki
- Keith Rabois"For a first-time entrepreneur: [this book] is an excellent introduction to many key issues." - Keith Rabois [Source]
Becoming Steve Jobs
The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader
Author :Brent Schlender
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois recommended this book on a Medium blog post. [Source]
Skin in the Game
Incerto, Book 5
Author :Nassim Taleb
- Keith Rabois"Quite powerful, albeit often redundant." - Keith Rabois [Source]
Red Notice
A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
Author :Bill Browder
- Keith Rabois"Amazing read about Russia from 1998-2007." - Keith Rabois [Source]
The Checklist Manifesto
How to Get Things Right
Author :Atul Gawande
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois recommended this book on a Medium blog post. [Source]
Hackers & Painters
Big Ideas from the Computer Age
Author :Paul Graham
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois recommended this book on a Medium blog post. [Source]
Radical Uncertainty
Decision-Making Beyond the Numbers
Author :John Kay
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois mentioned this book on Twitter. [Source]
How Google Works
Author :Eric Schmidt
- Keith RaboisKeith Rabois recommended this book on a Medium blog post. [Source]
FAQs
Q1: What types of books does Keith Rabois recommend?
Keith Rabois recommends a variety of books, including works of both fiction and non-fiction. He particularly favors books focused on personal development, finance, and leadership.
Q2: What is the process for getting a book recommendation from Keith Rabois?
Keith Rabois doesn't have a formal process for giving book recommendations. He often shares books he's reading on social media, especially Twitter. Following his profiles can provide insights into his current reads and recommendations.
Q3: How often does Keith Rabois update his list of book recommendations?
Keith Rabois typically updates his book recommendations on a quarterly basis.
Q4: Are there any books consistently recommended by Keith Rabois?
Keith Rabois has consistently recommended a few books, including The Millionaire FastLane and The Lean Startup.
Q5: Who should seek advice from Keith Rabois?
People who are interested in personal development, learning the ins and outs of finance, and gaining insight on how to lead more effectively would benefit from a consultation or book recommendation from Keith Rabois.
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