Tren Griffin Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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I work for Microsoft. Previously I was a partner at Eagle River, a private equity firm established by Craig McCaw. I am on the board of directors of Kymeta.
Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
Annie DukeTren GriffinMore books? A Man for All Markets by Ed Thorp Models of My Life by Hebert Simon Thinking in Bets, Annie Duke Complexity, Melanie Mitchell Lowenstein wrote the best Buffett biography Poor Charlie's Almanack by Peter Kaufman Global Negotiator (free!) https://t.co/qMeWN6M6tJ
Paperback, 2019
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James ClearTren GriffinResponded to the wrong thread. I'm on a walk tho. Ooops. "Adult nonfiction sales fell by a relatively mild 3.4% compared to the week ended July 24, 2021. Atomic Habits by James Clear was #1, selling more than 18,000 copies." That's a lot of copies. https://t.co/8EyTB4pBqh https://t.co/05MjGbagup
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The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
T. J. StilesTren Griffin@SteadyCompound Shoe Dog is my favorite. Damn Right about Charlie Munger is a bio, which my book really isn't. Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist by Lowenstein Becoming Steve Jobs by Schlender Carnegie by Nasaw Titan by Chernow The First Tycoon by Stiles Schwab https://t.co/aiay1U3pu0
Paperback, 2010
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance
Michael E. PorterTren Griffin@raybamford @grinich Sustainable competitive advantage is Michael Porter's term. It is descriptive but squishy. In the link I sent Mauboussin has created a quantitative test based on Buffett's ideas. Buffett says Porter's concept is similar to his concept.
Hardcover, 1998
$42.00$21.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Trembling of a Leaf: Little Stories of the South Sea Islands
W. Somerset MaughamTren Griffin@patrick_oshag Title: The Trembling of a Leaf Subtitle: Little Stories of the South Sea Islands Author: W. Somerset Maugham https://t.co/MtsLyfXGMH
Paperback, 2024
$11.99$5.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Brad StoneTren GriffinIn 2001 Jim Sinegal met Jeff Bezos in a Starbucks in Bellevue, Washington and told the Amazon CEO about the Costco membership business model. In “The Everything Store” the author writes about that meeting: “Sinegal explained the Costco model to Bezos." https://t.co/gPVlHUmf1z https://t.co/PbmhcjaeoL
Paperback, 2014
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence
Benoit MandelbrotTren GriffinHoliday book gifts? 1. Influence by Robert Cialdini 2. Shoe Dog by Phil Knight 3. The Outsiders by William Thorndike. 4. Competitive Strategy by Michael Porter 5. The Misbehavior of Markets by Benoit Mandelbrot (harder) 6. Incerto by Nassim Taleb https://t.co/2sh5RmbNeb
Paperback, 2006
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs
Tren GriffinTren Griffin1/ Running through the data in this well written thread are themes that I wrote about in my 2017 book "A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs" https://t.co/sQuRjtGtJn and numerous posts on my 25iQ blog at https://t.co/tRXO9ehusq https://t.co/0D2MZk0vzI
Hardcover, 2017
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power
Jacob HelbergTren Griffin"The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power" https://t.co/ENc4RQgkFZ The book drops in three days. As everyone knows, a16z partners like me received copies earlier than the general public. . https://t.co/hBMO0xWI3n
Paperback, 2022
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched Spacex
Eric BergerTren Griffin@ibroughttraffic @stevesi @joshelman @Carnage4Life If you read Liftoff by Eric Berger you see how it helped SpaceX that decisions were made quickly by a decider instead of a committee. Products shipped. "The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking." Elon Musk
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