IRB Media
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
#1 In 2007, Kleiner Perkins was approached by engineers who had named their startup after Nikola Tesla, the legendary inventor. They had partnered with a wildly successful PayPal entrepreneur who was now chairman of the board. They wanted to pitch their idea.
#2 The world must replace all gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles with a fleet of zero-emissions cars, trucks,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Get the Summary of Prem Rawat's Hear Yourself in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The cacophony of modern life can be deafening, leaving us feeling frazzled and uneasy. In this warm, wise book, Prem Rawat teaches us how to turn down the noise to "hear ourselves" - to listen to the subtle song of peace that sings inside each of us. Once we learn to truly "hear ourselves" and the voice of...
Author
Language
English
Description
Get the Summary of Sean Ellis & Morgan Brown's ‘Hacking Growth’ in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: So how did these companies grow from these humble beginnings into the powerhouses they are today? Contrary to popular belief, they didn't explode to massive worldwide popularity simply by building a great product then crossing their fingers and hoping it would catch on. There was a...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 When Adam Brown woke up on March 17, 2010, he didn't know he would die that night in the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan, but he was ready. He had written in his journal to both Nathan and Savannah, his ten-year-old son, a letter they weren't meant to see unless the worst happened.
#2 In late 2009, intelligence agencies had been tracking a Taliban leader named...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview:
#1 I grew up in a suburb of Chicago called Downers Grove. I had a happy childhood, but I was always into weird things. I spent my childhood watching infomercials and sleeping on the couch. I never got anything from those shows, but I did have a happy childhood.
#2 My parents were extremely open-minded, and they never pressured me to get married or have kids early. They...
Author
Language
English
Description
Get the Summary of Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie's The Book of Why in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: "Correlation does not imply causation". This mantra has been invoked by scientists for decades and has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. But today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, sparked by Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 Your identity is a powerful and influential driver that governs outcomes in all parts of your life. It defines the limits of your success, finances, and achievements. It controls the quality of your emotions, relationships, and self-worth.
#2 As a child, you were a blank canvas. You were impressionable, happy, and accepting. You had no reason to believe the...
Author
Language
English
Description
Get the Summary of Andrew Henderson's ‘Nomad Capitalist’ in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: What it will give you is a vision of what's possible, including second passport opportunities, offshore banking countries to use (and avoid), specific jurisdictions to consider for business and investment, and the basic framework you will need to legally lower your taxes and build the life...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 When you're pregnant, you think that life will be different once you have a child. But five months into the pregnancy, I realized that the feeling of being weighed down by adulthood wasn't going to get any better any time soon.
#2 When we moved to Paris, we had no idea where we would end up, but we were sure that we would be living outside of the United States....
Author
Language
English
Description
Get the Summary of Joel Kotkin's The Coming of Neo-Feudalism in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased dogmatism. If the last seventy years saw...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 Everyone has a role model, someone who pointed the way at a critical moment in their lives. These children were my role models. They obviously knew something I didn't and I was determined to figure it out.
#2 The debate over whether intelligence is fixed or not has been going on for centuries. Today, most experts agree that it's not fixed, and that people can...
Author
Language
English
Description
Get the Summary of Howard Marks' Mastering the Market Cycle in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: We all know markets rise and fall, but when should you pull out, and when should you stay in? The answer is never black or white, but is best reached through a keen understanding of the reasons behind the rhythm of cycles. Confidence about where we are in a cycle comes when you learn the patterns...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 The mood in the helicopter was upbeat, especially from Ronnie Means. He had taken a job building concrete silos before joining the Army, and he looked like he was giddy. I didn't hit it off with him until we spent five hours together on a bus.
#2 I had always known cold and snow in December, but here, the air was so thick and muggy that I struggled to take deep breaths....
Author
Language
English
Description
Get the Summary of Frank Slootman's Amp It Up in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman is one of the tech world's most accomplished executives in enterprise growth, having led Snowflake to the largest software IPO ever after leading ServiceNow and Data Domain to exponential growth and the public market before that. In Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview:
#1 Helen was having an identity crisis. She had always wanted to be an artist, but after college, she had no clear path forward. She nannied while waiting for her life to start, but it never did.
#2 Identity capital is our collection of personal assets. It is the repertoire of individual resources that we assemble over time. These are the investments we make in...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 Financial education allows you to make more money with less risk, and it also allows you to pay less in taxes. However, you can't follow traditional financial advice or invest in traditional investments.
#2 In 2007, the world woke up to the word subprime. These were mortgages given to people with poor credit who could not afford to pay them back. In 2008, the...
Author
Language
English
Description
Get the Summary of Toby Ord's The Precipice in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: If all goes well, human history is just beginning. Our species could survive for billions of years - enough time to end disease, poverty, and injustice, and to flourish in ways unimaginable today. But this vast future is at risk. With the advent of nuclear weapons, humanity entered a new age, where we face...
Author
Language
English
Description
Get the Summary of Greg Steinmetz's American Rascal in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: American Rascal shows Gould's complex, quirky character. He was at once praised for his brilliance by Rockefeller and Vanderbilt and condemned for forever destroying American business values by Mark Twain. He lived a colorful life, trading jokes with Thomas Edison, figuring Thomas Nast's best sketches,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Get the Summary of Rob Biesenbach's Unleash the Power of Storytelling in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Unleash the Power of Storytelling offers a practical roadmap to crafting and delivering more powerful, persuasive stories that you can use to get more of what you want out of your career and your life.
"In this engaging, no-nonsense, and often extremely funny handbook on the craft...
Author
Language
English
Description
Get the Summary of Leonard Mlodinow's Subliminal in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Leonard Mlodinow, the best-selling author of The Drunkard's Walk and coauthor of The Grand Design (with Stephen Hawking), gives us a startling and eye-opening examination of how the unconscious mind shapes our experience of the world and how, for instance, we often misperceive our relationships with family,...