How to Boost Your Business Acumen: Top Books and Podcasts

Level up your business acumen with some of my favorite resources below. What would you add to the list? 👇

1️⃣ Required learning:

• Zero to One by Peter Thiel & Blake Masters
• YouTube: YC How to Start a Startup YouTube course
• Traction by Gino Wickman
• Podcast: All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg

2️⃣ Additional suggested books:

• The Hard Thing about Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
• Good to Great by Jim Collins
• The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
• The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber
• The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton Christensen
• Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore
• Case in Point by Marc Cosentino

3️⃣ Additional suggested podcasts:

• Acquired
• Bad Bets
• How I Built This with Guy Raz
• Invest Like the Best with Patrick O’Shaughnessy
• The Oficial SaaStr Podcast
• The Survival to Thrival Podcast
• TechCrunch Daily Crunch

Note: I purposely didn’t include leadership & professional development books or any discipline-specific resources (e.g. Marketing focused). Those will be in another post soon.

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What would you add to the list?
Love any specific one listed?
Disagree with any of these?