118 Patrick Collison Recommended Books
Patrick Collison is a technology entrepreneur and billionaire. He is best known as the co-founder and CEO of Stripe, a software company that provides payment processing services for internet businesses. Collison founded Stripe in 2010 along with his brother John, and since then it has become one of the most successful and fastest-growing payment processing companies in the world.
118 Books recommended by Patrick Collison
Myth of the Machine
Technics and Human Development
Author :Lewis Mumford
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
Learning to Learn
Author :Richard W. Hamming
- Patrick Collison"One of my favorite books." - Patrick Collison [Source]
The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan
Author :James Morier
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
Scientific Freedom
The Elixir of Civilization
Author :Donald W. Braben
- Patrick Collison"One of the best [books putting forth different visions for how science can be structured]." - Patrick Collison [Source]
The Feminine Mystique
Author :Betty Friedan
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
Out of Mao's Shadow
The Struggle for the Soul of a New China
Author :Philip P. Pan
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "particularly great." [Source]
The Dream Machine
Author :M. Mitchell Waldrop
- Patrick Collison"Particularly great." - Patrick Collison [Source]
The Secret Commonwealth
Book Of Dust, Book 2
Author :Philip Pullman
- Patrick Collison"Going to own up to being very excited that there's a new Philip Pullman book." - Patrick Collison [Source]
The Nature of Mathematical Modeling
Author :Neil Gershenfeld
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
Toward a Theory of Instruction
Author :Jerome Bruner
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
Anthropic Bias
Author :Nick Bostrom
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "particularly great." [Source]
A Decade of Research
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 1970-1980
Author :Giuliana ed. Lavendel
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
A Shot to Save the World
The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine
Author :Gregory Zuckerman
- Patrick Collison"[This book], about the creation of the COVID vaccines, is terrific." - Patrick Collison [Source]
The Big Score
The Billion Dollar Story of Silicon Valley
Author :Michael S. Malone
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
Weather of the San Francisco Bay Region
Author :Harold Gilliam
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
Ocean Flying
A Pilot's Guide
Author :Louise Sacchi
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics
Author :Gerald Jay Sussman
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
The Enlightened Economy
An Economic History of Britain 1700-1850
Author :Joel Mokyr
- Patrick Collison"It's very good." - Patrick Collison [Source]
Organizing Genius
The Secrets of Creative Collaboration
Author :Warren Bennis
- Patrick Collison"Talks a bit about this phenomenon of a really productive small group." - Patrick Collison [Source]
Postcards from Tomorrow Square
Reports from China
Author :James Fallows
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
Foucault's Pendulum
Author :Umberto Eco
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
The Infidel and the Professor
David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought
Author :Dennis C. Rasmussen
- Patrick Collison"Great book." - Patrick Collison [Source]
The Power Law
Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future
Author :Sebastian Mallaby
- Patrick Collison"By far the best book I've read on the sector." - Patrick Collison [Source]
The Man Behind the Microchip
Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley
Author :Leslie Berlin
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
A Culture of Growth
The Origins of the Modern Economy
Author :Joel Mokyr
- Patrick Collison"All of [this author’s] work is great, but [this book] in particular really stands out to me." - Patrick Collison [Source]
Matterhorn
A Novel of the Vietnam War
Author :Karl Marlantes
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming
Case Studies in Common Lisp
Author :Peter Norvig
- Patrick Collison"In the aggregate [with other programming books] hugely shaped me." - Patrick Collison [Source]
Men, Machines, and Modern Times
Author :Elting E. Morison
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
Reasons and Persons
Author :Derek Parfit
- Patrick Collison"I don't totally agree, but I think it's a really interesting modern take on moral philosophy." - Patrick Collison [Source]
Eugene Braunwald and the Rise of Modern Medicine
Author :Thomas H. Lee
- Patrick Collison"Very good (And Eugene Kleiner's first cousin!)." - Patrick Collison [Source]
Mindstorms
Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas
Author :Seymour A. Papert
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "particularly great." [Source]
Global Catastrophic Risks
Author :Nick Bostrom
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
A Vast Machine
Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming
Author :Paul N. Edwards
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
The Cowshed
Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Author :Ji Xianlin
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
Wind, Sand and Stars
Author :Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
The Ocean of Life
The Fate of Man and the Sea
Author :Callum Roberts
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
Medieval Technology and Social Change
Author :Lynn White
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
Democracy in America
Author :Alexis de Tocqueville
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "particularly great." [Source]
The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics
Author :Nicholas J. Higham
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz
Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo
Author :Michela Wrong
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
Popper Selections
Author :Karl R. Popper
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
Masters of Doom
How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
Author :David Kushner
- Patrick Collison"One of my favorite books about building software." - Patrick Collison [Source]
Modern Operating Systems
Author :Andrew S Tanenbaum
- Patrick Collison"In the aggregate [with other programming books] hugely shaped me." - Patrick Collison [Source]
Electronic Payment Systems for E-Commerce
Author :Donal O'Mahony
- Patrick Collison"Our childhood home in Limerick was previously inhabited by one of the authors of this book." - Patrick Collison [Source]
The Old Way
A Story of the First People
Author :Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
The Journalist And The Murderer
Author :Janet Malcolm
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
A Pattern Language
Towns, Buildings, Construction
Author :Christopher Alexander
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "particularly great." [Source]
Technics and Civilization
Author :Lewis Mumford
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
Metamagical Themas
Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern
Author :Douglas R. Hofstadter
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "particularly great." [Source]
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters
The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
Author :Jason Stearns
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "particularly great." [Source]
The Precipice
Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
Author :Toby Ord
- Patrick Collison"A great contribution." - Patrick Collison [Source]
Dealers of Lightning
Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
Author :Michael A. Hiltzik
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
The Billion-Dollar Molecule
The Quest for the Perfect Drug
Author :Barry Werth
- Patrick Collison"Lots about entrepreneurship, science, pharmacology, risk, importance of work ethic, management practices, fundraising, and the impressive depth of US capital markets." - Patrick Collison [Source]
Perspective on McKinsey
Author :Marvin Bower
- Patrick Collison"Can’t shake the feeling that a consultant wrote this book." - Patrick Collison [Source]
The Scramble for Africa
White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912
Author :Thomas Pakenham
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
Age of Ambition
Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
Author :Evan Osnos
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "particularly great." [Source]
The C Programming Language
Author :Brian W. Kernighan
- Patrick Collison"In the aggregate [with other programming books] hugely shaped me." - Patrick Collison [Source]
Stories of Your Life and Others
Author :Ted Chiang
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
Plagues and Peoples
Author :William McNeill
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Author :Neil Postman
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
Incompleteness
The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Godel
Author :Rebecca Goldstein
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
Whole Earth Discipline
Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, Restored Wildlands, and Geoengineering Are Necessary
Author :Stewart Brand
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
Plato at the Googleplex
Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
Author :Rebecca Goldstein
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
A Great Leap Forward
1930s Depression and U.S. Economic Growth
Author :Alexander J. Field Ph.D.
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
Justice as Fairness
A Restatement
Author :John Rawls
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
Nixon Agonistes
The Crisis of the Self-Made Man
Author :Garry Wills
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "particularly great." [Source]
How Asia Works
Author :Joe Studwell
- Patrick Collison"A really good book." - Patrick Collison [Source]
The City in History
Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
Author :Lewis Mumford
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
The Inner Game of Tennis
The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
Author :W. Timothy Gallwey
- Patrick Collison"A really good book that I very highly recommend." - Patrick Collison [Source]
The Educated Mind
How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding
Author :Kieran Egan
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
I Didn't Do It for You
How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation
Author :Michela Wrong
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
The Hunters
Author :James Salter
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
The Planet Remade
How Geoengineering Could Change the World
Author :Oliver Morton
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Author :Harold Abelson
- Patrick Collison"In the aggregate [with other programming books] hugely shaped me." - Patrick Collison [Source]
The Paris Review Interviews, I
16 Celebrated Interviews
Author :The Paris Review
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "particularly great." [Source]
Business Adventures
Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
Author :John Brooks
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
China Airborne
Author :James Fallows
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
Poor Charlie's Almanack
The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
Author :Charlie Munger
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "particularly great." [Source]
Asimov's New Guide to Science
Author :Isaac Asimov
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
On the Shortness of Life
Author :Lucius Seneca
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
River Town
Two Years on the Yangtze
Author :Peter Hessler
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
The Rise and Fall of American Growth
The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War
Author :Robert J. Gordon
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "particularly great." [Source]
Orality and Literacy
Author :Walter J. Ong
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
Spacetime and Geometry
An Introduction to General Relativity
Author :Sean Carroll
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
On Intelligence
How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines
Author :Jeff Hawkins
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
Tuxedo Park
A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
Author :Jennet Conant
- Patrick Collison"It’s very good." - Patrick Collison [Source]
Wittgenstein's Vienna
Author :Allan Janik
- Patrick Collison"Have also been enjoying [this book]." - Patrick Collison [Source]
Feynman Lectures on Computation
Author :Richard P. Feynman
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
Mind-Body Problem
Author :Rebecca Goldstein
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "particularly great." [Source]
The Count of Monte Cristo
Author :Alexandre Dumas
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
A Course in Mathematical Analysis
Author :Douard Goursat
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
Stuff Matters
Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
Author :Mark Miodownik
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
The Beginning of Infinity
Explanations That Transform the World
Author :David Deutsch
- Patrick Collison"A really beautiful modern philosophy book." - Patrick Collison [Source]
Moral Mazes
The World of Corporate Managers
Author :Robert Jackall
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
Season of the Witch
Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love
Author :David Talbot
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
Quantum Computing since Democritus
Author :Scott Aaronson
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens
Frank Oppenheimer and His Astonishing Exploratorium
Author :K. C. Cole
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "particularly great." [Source]
Hard Landing
The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos
Author :Thomas Petzinger Jr.
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "particularly great." [Source]
Freedom's Forge
How American Business Produced Victory in World War II
Author :Arthur Herman
- Patrick Collison"About the logistical efforts -- led mostly by high school dropouts and immigrants -- that yielded the Arsenal of Democracy." - Patrick Collison [Source]
Computer Lib
Dream Machines
Author :Theodore H. Nelson
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
The Long Way
Author :Bernard Moitessier
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... Where is Everybody?
Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life
Author :Stephen Webb
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "particularly great." [Source]
Midnight's Children
Author :Salman Rushdie
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
Spastic Diplegia--Bilateral Cerebral Palsy
Understanding the Motor Problems, Their Impact on Walking, and Management Throughout Life
Author :Lily Collison
- Patrick Collison"Congrats, Mom!" - Patrick Collison [Source]
The Idea Factory
Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
Author :Jon Gertner
- Patrick Collison"Sets the context for the hardware inventions that directly led to Silicon Valley." - Patrick Collison [Source]
Expert Political Judgment
How Good Is It? How Can We Know?
Author :Philip E. Tetlock
- Patrick CollisonPatrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average." [Source]
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