Book description
Now available in paperback-with a new preface and interview with Jessica Livingston about Y Combinator!
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days is a collection of interviews with founders of famous technology companies about what happened in the very earliest days. These people are celebrities now. What was it…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Founders at Work as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Having entrepreneurial tendencies my entire life, I loved the book because it helped me realize the chaos, randomness and reality of the early days in any company, especially some of the most successful ones, was not unique to my own experience. Having started my career in corporate America in my early twenties, it didn’t take long before the pace, bureaucracy and general politics of the place started to wear thin.
The book is a collection of Q&A sessions with some of the most successful founders of modern-day companies. Hearing them talk about how some of the greatest inventions in business…
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