Many of our wrong decisions can be answered in good books.
Editor’s note: This article is from the micro-channel public number “really serious fund” (ID: zhenfund) , Author: Dai Yusen.
After dropping out of Stanford University in September 2007, Dai Yusen and Chen Ou co-founded Jumei Youpin, becoming one of the youngest co-founders of the NYSE listed company at that time, and later joined Zhenge Fund as a partner People, invested in emerging projects such as small punch card and scene deer.
From entrepreneurship to investment, his identity is changing, and his passion for reading is unchanged.
Today we share a non-fictional list of Dai Yusen. This list includes types such as entrepreneurship, investment, business, and science.
Author’s Press
I have spent most of my spare time reading in the past few years. After counting about 150 books a year, I have been hoping to write a list of recommended books. Now I have finally overcome the procrastination and wrote one. .
Because this list is written purely casually, where you think of where you write it, it is inevitable that you will miss everything. In addition, the book list mainly reflects my reading interest in the last one or two years (not all books are read in 2019), so many of them are related to my career “venture investment” and “entrepreneurship”, I also put This part is at the top of the book list.
Sequences are ordered, but they are not absolute. After all, they are all good books that I think are good. (What can be seen from this list is: I am indeed a person who does not read literature very much …)
About entrepreneurship itself
The best-written book about the true face of entrepreneurship, with your own personal experience, and a summary of it as a successful entrepreneur and transition investor.
Before I started my business, I was fortunate enough to have read this book, which gave me the most real expectations for entrepreneurship. Years have passed, and it is still the most exciting record of entrepreneurship. Reading this book allows you to put aside the illusion of entrepreneurship, Be Realistic. This book is recommended for reading in English.
Story of technology company founding
Twitter is a dramatic, high-growth company, and internal power struggles have been the focus of the industry since its inception. This book can also make you fully feel the chaos and passion of technology startups. This book is recommended for reading in English.
Uber is probably one of the most dramatic startups in the last 10 years.
A thrilling story. Whether it’s Uber’s founding process, Travis’ early experience, or the final confrontation between Benchmark and Travis, reading it is like reading a thriller novel, and these are stories that have happened in recent years.
How Paypal has become half on the InternetOf the global payment giant? What was Elon Musk like before he founded SpaceX and Tesla? There are some answers in this book.
Airbnb has been a crazy idea since its inception: Living in a stranger’s house? The non-technical background of the founder and early anecdotes (such as selling potato chips to raise money for the company during the presidential election period) are also often talked about.
But after reading this book, you will find that in fact, all technology companies are similar in the early days of their founding: visionary and fearless founders, ever-changing business models, stepping on the throttle on the edge of life and death … / p>
Everything is now related to Amazon in the long run, and it has done a lot of ridiculous things in the early days.
For example, blindly burning money to expand to categories and businesses that you are not good at, but fortunately Jeff Bezos is too strong, Amazon’s core business model is reliable, and luck … It is also good, and gradually created the current The world’s richest people, Jeff Bezos and Amazon. This book is recommended for reading in English.
Intel’s founding story shows how the semiconductor industry and venture capital have risen together, how “Moore’s Law” came about, and how Andy Grove became The Andy Grove.