Principles: Life and Work

By Ray Dalio (2017) Pages: 552, Final verdict: Great-read What principles does one of the most successful investment managers of the last 40 years live by? At some point in life people decide it is time to share their recipe for success. For Ray Dalio, that time came at the... Read more

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The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company

By Bog Iger (2019) Pages: 272, Final verdict: Great-read Bob Iger had a remarkable run as the CEO of Disney. From 2005 to 2020 Disney stock rose more than 400%, it released dozens of box-office hits, and he transformed the media landscape with the acquisitions of Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm and... Read more

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The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution

By Gregory Zuckerman (2019) Pages: 357, Final verdict: Great-read Jim Simmons is one of the most secretive and fascinating man in Wall Street. A mathematician and former code breaker for the US government, he is the founder of Renaissance Technologies, one of the world’s most lucrative hedge funds. In... Read more

Business Biography

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

By John Carreyrou (2018) Pages: 320,Final verdict: Should-read She was once dubbed the next Steve Jobs. Amassing a fortune once estimated in 4.5 billion USD, Elizabeth Holmes and her biotech startup Theranos were the darlings of Silicon Valley. But then, following an investigation done by John Carreyrou and... Read more

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Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility

By Patty McCord (2017) Pages: 148,Final verdict: Should-read The Netflix culture deck [https://igormroz.com/documents/netflix_culture.pdf], now famous throughout Silicon Valley and the larger tech world, began as an experiment when Patty McCord, longtime Chief Talent Officer of Netflix, Reed Hastings, the iconic founder and CEO,... Read more

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The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution

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Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility