Colin Landforce 🛠,🛠
Colin Landforce 🛠,🛠

@landforce

46 Tweets 53 reads Sep 04, 2021
I stopped reading business books a while ago, I'm reading history and biographies instead.
Here's 43 biographies that'll teach you way more than the concepts and strategies you're reading about right now.
The 3rd one is probably my favorite.
THREAD:
When I first mentioned this a few weeks ago and asked for recos, I got more than 120 from you guys. My VA pulled them all into a spreadsheet and we started organizing.
I've excluded some modern bios for lameness, and I've got a follow up thread tomorrow for straight up history.
The Tycoons
How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
amazon.com
The Innovators
How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
amazon.com
The Fish That Ate the Whale
The Life and Times of America's Banana King
amazon.com
The Power Broker
Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
amazon.com
King of Capital
The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone
amazon.com
The Box
How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
amazon.com
Sam Walton
Made in America
amazon.com
Titan
The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr
amazon.com
Grinding It Out
The Making of McDonald's
amazon.com
Cable Cowboy
John Malone and the Rise of the Modern Cable Business
amazon.com
The Ride of a Lifetime
Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
amazon.com
The Chief
The Life of William Randolph Hearst
amazon.com
The History of the Standard Oil Company
amazon.com
The First Tycoon
The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
amazon.com
Boom Copper
The Story Of The First U.S. Mining Boom
amazon.com
The Snowball
Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
amazon.com
Tap Dancing to Work
Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2013
amazon.com
The House of Morgan
An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
amazon.com
The Mormon Way of Doing Business
How Nine Western Boys Reached the Top of Corporate America
amazon.com
Baruch
My Own Story
amazon.com
Americana
A 400-Year History of American Capitalism
amazon.com
The Man Who Solved the Market
How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
amazon.com
Benjamin Franklin
An American Life
amazon.com
The Prize
The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
amazon.com
The Last Man Who Knew Everything
Thomas Young, The Anonymous Polymath Who Proved Newton Wrong, Explained How We See, Cured the Sick, and Deciphered the Rosetta Stone, Among Other Feats of Genius
amazon.com
American Prometheus
The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
amazon.com
Start-up Nation
The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle
amazon.com
Flash Boys
A Wall Street Revolt
amazon.com
UNIX
A History and a Memoir
amazon.com
Total Recall
My Unbelievably True Life Story
amazon.com
To Pixar and Beyond
My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History
amazon.com
Walt Disney
The Triumph of the American Imagination
amazon.com
The Anarchy
The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
amazon.com
Who Is Michael Ovitz?
The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Most Powerful Man in Hollywood
amazon.com
Powerhouse
The Untold Story of Hollywood's Creative Artists Agency
amazon.com
They Call Me Supermensch
A Backstage Pass to the Amazing Worlds of Film, Food, and Rock'n'Roll
amazon.com
Barbarians at the Gate
The Fall of RJR Nabisco
amazon.com
The Gambler
How Penniless Dropout Kirk Kerkorian Became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History
amazon.com
If you made it here, congrats, that was a hell of a list.
Don't worry, I haven't read em all.
Tomorrow (Sunday) I'm going to drop a thread of my favorite history books from that list of recos - let's get a little beyond Sapiens eh?
My name is Colin. I'm a serial entrepreneur and after these book lists, I'll get back to writing about building cannabis brands and businesses. That's all I do everyday.
Gimme a follow: @landforce
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