John Collison

John Collison's Book Recommendations

Business & Entrepreneurship

John Collison is the co-founder and President of Stripe, making him one of the youngest self-made billionaires in history. His reading list reflects deep interests in technology, business strategy, and the history of innovation.

306 books recommended

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Financial Shenanigans

Financial Shenanigans

by Howard M. Schilit

"I enjoyed this accounting-focused treatment of many major frauds."

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Stuff Matters

Stuff Matters

by Mark Miodownik

"Answers why US chocolate tastes like ground-up newspaper to me."

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Poor Charlie's Almanack

Poor Charlie's Almanack

by Charlie Munger

"Get your copy of Poor Charlie's Almanack, just in time for his centenary!"

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Liftoff

Liftoff

by Eric Berger

"Doesn't cover Starlink, but I enjoyed Liftoff on the swashbuckling early days of SpaceX"

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Fooled by Randomness

Fooled by Randomness

by Nassim Taleb

"Uh this is Nassim Taleb's thing in Fool by Randomness. um that we're you know we're oversensitive to the noise."
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The PHP Visual Quickstart Guide

by Larry Ullman

"we both learned to um uh code from this book uh the PHP Visual Quickstart Guide by Larry Ullman. uh and Larry actually just joined Stripe uh last week."
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