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What books did top tech stars read to succeed?
Seven books that shaped global tech stars
Which book intimidates Bill Gates? What was Kalanick’s Twitter avatar? All the famous works that challenged.
Bill Gates
The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth. If a person claimed to have finished this book, Gates would ask for his or her resume. "If somebody is so brash that they think they know everything, Knuth will help them understand that the world is deep and complicated."
Tim Cook
Competing Against Time by George Stalk Jr. The book is about managing supply chains to get a competitive boost something Apple has to worry about a lot. Industry gossip says that Cook gives copies to new hires.
Marissa Mayer
The Charisma Mythby Olivia Fox Cabane
The crux of Cabane's book is that anybody can be trained to be a great leader. Mayer put Cabane's lessons to work at Yahoo with leadership training sessions and even hosted the book's launch party at her San Francisco home.
Travis Kalanick
The Fountainheadby Ayn Rand For a while, the Fountainhead cover was Kalanick's Twitter avatar. "It's less of a political statement. It's just one of my favourite books. I'm a fan of architecture," he said.
Steve Jobs
Be Here Now by Ram Dass The late Apple co-founder was deeply influenced by this 1971 book on meditation and metaphysics he read as a student at Reed College. "It was profound," Jobs once said. "It transformed me and many of my friends."
Satya Nadella
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown When Nadella shook up the company's management in April 2014, he said he took leadership lessons from this book by Brown, who was an ex-Microsoft employee. "Evocative description in the book about a team of rowers working together at the highest level he calls it 'the swing of the boat ,'" Nadella wrote in a company email.
Mark Zuckerberg
Aeneid by Virgil Zuckerberg is a big fan of the classics. Virgil's Aeneid, the Latin epic poem about the Trojan War, was a favourite dating back to his high school days. "There's a part of him thatit was present even when he was 20 -21 this kind of imperial tendency. He was really into Greek odysseys and all that stuff," Napster founder and early Facebook president Sean Parker said of Zuckerberg in the New Yorker in 2010.
Source: techgig.com
