Karlie Kloss: "It’s an amazing book on the beginning of humanity. It’s scientific but also philosophical."

Joe Rogan: "Great book... Fucking fascinating... Very enlightening."

Patrick O'Shaughnessy: "This book was so entertaining and useful.

It provides a concise history of humankind and outlines why we have the psychology we do today (this part is great for thinking about investor behavior)."

Changpeng Zhao: "[This book] gives me a greater perspective about how humans emerged and why we behave the way we do."

Daniel Ek: "One of the most-talked-about books of the last couple of years, and for good reason.

Both sobering and conservatively optimistic in equal measure, it seems even more relevant for us at the moment to learn from our socio-anthropological history."

Anthony Pompliano: "One of the best books I read in 2017"

Naval Ravikant: "An orthogonal and clinical examination of the human animal, from the beginning to now.

Humans are story-telling alpha predators that killed the competition and domesticated the survivors. This is our story, and it's not all pretty."

David Sacks: "Yuval Harari’s Sapiens had a big impact on how I approach VC. The theme of the book is that humans obsess over narratives.

So I try to focus on product and metrics as a way to get to ground truth, as opposed to over-indexing on the pitch, which is mostly a story-telling event."

Melinda Gates mentioned this book as one of her 11 favorite books.

Reid Hoffman: "Sapiens has had me thinking a lot about the evolution of humanity and what our future looks like."

Mark Zuckerberg: "I found the chapter on the evolution of the role of religion in human life most interesting and something I wanted to go deeper on."

Raoul Pal enjoyed reading 'Sapiens'.

One of the books Keith Rabois recommends for entrepreneurs.

Bill Gurley: "I really enjoyed [Sapiens]"

Bill Gates: "Melinda and I spent weeks talking about this history of the human race."

Jason Calacanis: "You have to read Good To Great. It will change the way you look at startups"

Brian Armstrong: "The scientific method can be applied to business. This book draws powerful lessons from data."

David Sacks: "I read one business how-to book back in the PayPal days when I didn't have any real business education. It was Good to Great."

Daniel Ek: "Good to great is a really interesting book."

One of Max Levchin's answers to "What’s your favorite business book you’d recommend to young entrepreneurs?"

Included on Jeff Bezos' list of books that Amazon employees refer to as “Jeff’s Reading List.”

Elon Musk: "Could not recommend this book more. Audio version is great."

David Sacks: "The most timely and important book I read last year"

Anthony Scaramucci: "Read every page… Twice."

Lloyd Blankfein: "Destined for War by Graham Allison informs the moment like Guns of August did for Kennedy in [the] Cuban Missile Crisis. Important lessons.”

Tony Robbins: "In Behind the Cloud, Marc Benioff takes us through the ups and downs of building one of the most extraordinary businesses of our time and reveals the tactics that gave salesforce.com its amazing edge.

This book will show you how to focus your vision, think differently, align your organization―and transform your business and your life."

David Sacks: "I strongly recommend that all founders read Chapter 3 of Behind the Cloud (on Marketing)."

One of the books Keith Rabois recommends for entrepreneurs.

One of four good books Aaron Levie highly recommends reading.

David Sacks: "Denounced as a wing nut, Churchill went around Britain speaking to half-empty rooms about the Hitler menace.

Read 'The Last Lion: Alone'"

Donald Trump recommends 'The Last Lion' in his book 'Trump 101: The Way to Success'

One of the books on Larry Ellison's nightstand from 'The Billionaire and the Mechanic'

Marc Andreessen included this as one of 10 more books to read to understand 'The Bonfire of the Universities'.

David Sacks mentioned 'The Founders' as his most anticipated media of 2024' on the All-In podcast.

Tyler Cowen: "It is illuminating on start-ups, the earlier history of Silicon Valley, and it is a fair treatment of Peter Thiel."

One of Boyan Slat's favorite books of 2023.

David Sacks: "A book series I really like is 'Nexus' by Ramez Naam."

Naval Ravikant: "Fantastic"

Balaji Srinivasan: "Read this book. It will show you why we need to replace this nepotist’s corporate 'truth' with decentralized truth."

David Sacks mentioned The Gray Lady Winked on the All-In Podcast

Garry Tan: "This book is lucid, full of real SF citizens who directly experience the worst of our deep policy mistakes buttressed by systemic nonprofit graft and corruption"

David Sacks: "It's already very influential. It's not just about San Fransisco, it's about how the so-called progressive agenda in cities is not working"

David Sacks: "Prouder than ever that I made Chris Buckley's book into a movie."

David Sacks: "Sales excellence is the missing piece for a huge number of product and tech founders. This book demystifies it and shows you how to do it yourself until it's time to hire someone else to do it. Highly recommend."

David Sacks: "I found a passage in Elizabeth Warren's new book which is really interesting because it describes how the insider's game works."