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Dec 19, 2022

22 Books I Listened to in 2022 & Recommendations for You

This is now the 7th year I’m writing this blog post, hopefully, it has not become boring and you will find a couple of books from this list that are new and you get to read over the holidays or next year. Many of you know that I mostly listen…

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22 Books I Listened to in 2022 & Recommendations for You
22 Books I Listened to in 2022 & Recommendations for You
Books

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Dec 20, 2021

18 Books I Read/Listened in 2021

This is now the sixth year I’m writing this post, hopefully, it has not become boring and you find a couple of books from this list that are new and you get to read over the holidays or next year. …

Books

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18 Books I Read/Listened in 2021
18 Books I Read/Listened in 2021
Books

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May 14, 2021

Founding CEO vs. Hired CEO: What the Data Reveals

Steve Jobs, Jerry Yang, and many other founders were fired from their companies. What percentage of founders remained as CEO and were they more successful? — If you’ve been following my recent posts, you may know that I spent the last four years conducting one of the largest data-driven studies into startups, trying to understand what was different between the startups that became billion-dollar successes versus those that did not. …

Entrepreneurship

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Founding CEO vs. Hired CEO: What the Data Reveals
Founding CEO vs. Hired CEO: What the Data Reveals
Entrepreneurship

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May 10, 2021

What I Learned About Startups by Collecting 30,000 Data Points

I spent four years conducting one of the largest data-driven studies on startups, and here’s what it reveals about the difference between billion-dollar startups and startups that raised VC funding but failed to become one. — Some of you may remember a medium article I published two years ago which included dozens of colorful charts that showed data-driven facts about unicorns. That article went viral with hundreds of thousands of readers. One key feedback I received was that I needed to compare the results from the…

Startup

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What I Learned About Startups by Collecting 30,000 Data Points
What I Learned About Startups by Collecting 30,000 Data Points
Startup

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·May 4, 2021

The Founders of Clubhouse, Spotify, Stripe, and 42% of Unicorns Have One Thing in Common

Founders with a small exit in their first company were much more likely to build a unicorn in their next, a new study of startups shows — Alex Tew isn’t your stereotypical Ivy League college dropout or software engineer at Google who founded a billion-dollar startup. Tew was a student at Nottingham University when he started his first project. His itch for building something and making some money had led him to create “The Million Dollar Homepage”…

Startup

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The Founders of Clubhouse, Spotify, Stripe, and 42% of Unicorns Have One Thing in Common
The Founders of Clubhouse, Spotify, Stripe, and 42% of Unicorns Have One Thing in Common
Startup

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Dec 21, 2020

Books I Read In 2020 and Recommendations For You

This is now the fifth year I’m writing this post, hopefully, it has not become boring and you find a couple of books from this list that are new and you get to read over the holidays or next year. …

Books

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Books I Read In 2020 and Recommendations For You
Books I Read In 2020 and Recommendations For You
Books

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Dec 18, 2019

Books I listened to in 2019

This title is boring, but these books are not! — As I have done in the past couple of years (2018 list, 2017 list), I’m sharing the list of books I finished this year. As always, I have been using Audible and listening to books on 2.5x speed (I’ve slowly trained myself over the past 4 years and now perfectly…

Startup

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Books I listened to in 2019
Books I listened to in 2019
Startup

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Jan 1, 2019

18 Books I Finished Listening To in 2018

It’s that time of the year again and as we are heading to start a new year, here is a recap of the books I listened to in the past year. I have been doing this exercise for the past three years (Here’s the list of the books I listened…

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18 Books I Finished Listening To in 2018
18 Books I Finished Listening To in 2018
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Dec 5, 2018

Land of the “Super Founders“— A Data-Driven Approach to Uncover the Secrets of Billion Dollar Startups

I Spent 300 Hours Gathering Data On Billion-Dollar Startups and Here’s 100 Charts You Shouldn’t Miss — Update: I wrote a book. “Super Founders” I spent another two years after the publication of this article gathering the same data on non-unicorn startups, so I could accurately compare what differentiates billion-dollar startups from those that failed to become one. This is the first such study that has been…

Startup

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Land of the “Super Founders“— A Data-Driven Approach to Uncover the Secrets of Billion Dollar…
Land of the “Super Founders“— A Data-Driven Approach to Uncover the Secrets of Billion Dollar…
Startup

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Mar 23, 2018

Dropbox Plus Another $100Bn+ Worth of Companies Founded by Iranian-Americans

$600Bn+ is the total market cap of public companies with Iranian-Americans on the Board of Directors (Source: IA-CP) — Today, Dropbox had its long-anticipated initial public offering and was offered on NASDAQ under the ticker DBX. The total value at the offering was around $9Bn. …

Entrepreneurship

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Dropbox Plus Another $100Bn+ Worth of Companies Founded by Iranian-Americans
Dropbox Plus Another $100Bn+ Worth of Companies Founded by Iranian-Americans
Entrepreneurship

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Partner at DCVC ($4Bn VC firm) and author of “Super Founders”. #1 bestseller new release VC book on Amazon. https://getbook.at/superfounders

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