Summer Reading: 10 Essential Books for Entrepreneurs
It seems like not a day goes by without your social media feed being peppered with posts of the “I hate my boss/job” variety. If not posts from friends, then it’s a clickbait story about someone who never considered going into business for him or herself and then doing just that.
If the success of Gimlet Media’s StartUp podcast and last year’s Christmas hit Joy starring Jennifer Lawrence as Miracle Mop tycoon Joy Mangano are any indication, folks are feeling cramped, boxed-in, suffocated, and you-name-it by the rigid demands of 9-5 corporate culture and are actively seeking alternatives.
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Peter Thiel Speaks at HBS
Peter Thiel, who gives $100,000 to young entrepreneurs to forgo college, spent an afternoon in front of a packed house at Harvard Business School. Thiel was at the school to promote his upcoming book “Zero to One.”
Theil is a Co-Founder of PayPal, first outside investor of Facebook, Co-Founder of the Founders Fund and Founder of the Thiel Fellowship.
Thiel describes the origin of and story behind the book, “Zero to One,” with the following:
