Index

Introduction

I've compiled a handful of resources that I find useful and share frequently. They're not in any particular order.

Entrepreneurship and Growth

• The Deep Structure of Economic Growth, Paul Romer
• Ideas, Nonrivalry, and Endogenous Growth, Chad Jones on @tylercowen's work
• Early career setback and future success, Tyler Cowen
• Entrepreneurship and parental love, Marja-Liisa Halko
• Age and High-Growth Entrepreneurship, Pierre Azoulay
• What makes entrepreneurs entrepreneurial?, Saras D. Sarasvath
• Asymmetric Information and entrepreneurship, Deepak Hegde
• Chamath at the Stanford GSB, Chamath Palihapitiya
• Runnin' down a dream, (2), Bill Gurley
• The Messy Middle (book, talk), Scott Belsky
• Founding Sales (book), Peter Kazanjy

Strategy

• Competitive Advantage: Enduring Ideas and New Opportunities, Michael Porter
• Aggregation Theory, Ben Thompson
• Frameworks, Sarah Tavel
• Clayton M. Christensen's Books
• Michael E. Porter's Books
• Warfighting, USMC
• Certain to Win Notes, John Boyd h/t Chet Richards
• Boyd Notes, John Boyd h/t Chet Richards
• Seven Powers Notes, Hamilton Helmer h/t Clint Watson
• 7 Powers of Business Strategy, Han Wei
• The Outsiders Notes, William Thornedike h/t Kyle Eschenroeder
• What is Amazon?, Zack Kanter
• Multi-sided marketplaces, Tren Griffin
• All revenue is not created equal, Bill Gurley
• Calculating Customer-Based Corporate Valuation, Michael Mauboussin

Annual Letters

• Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders, Warren Buffett
• Oaktree Capital Memos, Howard Marks
• Amazon Annual Letters to Shareholders (1997-2020), Jeff Bezos

Operations

• Blitzscaling lectures, Reid Hoffman
• Lessons from Keith Rabois Essay 2: How to Interview an Executive, Delian Asparouhov
• Lessons from Keith Rabois Essay 3: How to be an Effective Executive, Delian Asparouhov
• The Cadence: How to Operate a SaaS Startup, David Sacks
• Square defangs difficult decisions with this system, Gokul Rajaram
• SPADE toolkit, Gokul Rajaram
• Build a customer advisory board, Peter Kazanjy
• Titles, Gokul Rajaram
• Promotional Cultures, Jack Altman

Product

• Google's maps's moat, Justin O'Beirne
• Chinese Mobile UI Trends, (2), Dan Grover
• Open Product Management, Nicholas Ivanecky
• Get in the van, Michael Sippy
• Build an Engine to Find Product Market Fit, Rahul Vohra
• How Chinese Apps Handled Covid-19, Dan Grover
• Status as a Service, Eugene Wei
• Invisible Asymptotes, Eugene Wei
• WWDC Index

Fintech (Payments, Insurance, and Lending)

• FinTech 2.0: Software as the future of payments distribution, Ashley Paston
• Bit about Money, Patrick McKenzie
• VISA's Plaid acquisition deck
• Payments Part 1, Part 2, Gary Gensler
• Fintech and the Pursuit of the Prize: Who Stands to Win Over the Next Decade?, Michael Gilroy, Chase Packard, Leslie Wang
• Children of Durbin, Ayo Omojola
• Amazon Writing Tips

Life

• This is Water (audio), David Foster Wallace
• The Stockdale Paradox, Jim Collins
• Trial, error, and the God complex (video), Tim Hartford
• University of Texas at Austin 2014 Commencement Address (video), Admiral William H. McRaven
• The Psychology of Human Misjudgement (video), Charlie Munger
• Give yourself permission to be creative (video), Ethan Hawke
• Last Lecture: Achieving your childhood dreams (video), Randy Pausch
• Clip of Giannis Antetokounmpo interview (video)
• How to do great work, Paul Graham
• 101 Additional Advices, Kevin Kelly
• How to be Successful, Sam Altman
• Doing well in your courses, Andrej Karpathy
• How to Live, Derek Sivers
• When Tailwinds Vanish, Tyler Luttig
• High Return Activity: Raising Others' Aspirations, Tyler Cowen
• Assured Misery, Morgan Housel