Drew Houston's Book Recommendations

"Sketched really concise and good thoughts for [how to approach life]."

"The best book on management ever written."

"About principled negotiation, and I still think about and apply a lot of those concepts today."

"I think one of the most valuable concepts from The Effective Executive is measuring your time."

"About how businesses get disrupted, and a lot of those themes are why startups can succeed and thrive even when there are big competitors who you would think would just wipe ’em out."

"[There are] engineers who [dismiss] all these things that can’t be fit into an algorithm, or that don’t have some kind of mathematical rigor underpinning them, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is about that question."

"It’s [about] how do technology products make their way from early adopters to the mainstream."

"One of the great things that [the author] wrote in The Hard Thing About Hard Things is the hardest part of being a CEO is managing your psychology."

"It’s nonfiction, but it spelled out something that I just didn’t know you could kind of break down in a logical way. And, suddenly, I had this understanding about the world that I didn’t have before."

"A great book."

"[About] how do you get attention and users for your product if you have no money? The tactic of putting a video on Hacker News or creating a viral video, that was a seed that was planted by reading Guerilla Marketing."