Recommended Books

Buntownicy. Biznesowi innowatorzy zmieniają świat
by Adam M. Grant
"It can sometimes seem as if one must learn everything old before one can try anything new. [The author] does a masterful job showing that is not the case; we are lucky to have him as a guide." - Peter Thiel
— https://www.amazon.com/dp/014312885X

The Holy Bible: King James Version
by Anonymous
Peter Thiel says The New Testament has influenced him more than The Old Testament.
— https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/peter-thiel/

Atlas Zbuntowany
by Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff
"When I first read [Ayn Rand's books] in the late 80s, it felt pretty crazy. And in the last decades, it's in many ways felt much more correct." - Peter Thiel
— https://youtu.be/h10kXgTdhNU?t=2475

Najtrudniejsze w tym, co trudne. Prowadzenie biznesu, gdy nie ma prostych odpowiedzi
by Ben Horowitz
"[The author] has written the first true guide for protecting a startup from self-sabotage." - Peter Thiel
— https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062273205

Anna Karenina
by Bruno Goetz, Leo Tolstoy, Lev Tolstoj, Dieter Wellershoff, Léon Tolstoï
"All happy families are alike, and all unhappy families are unhappy in their own special way." - Peter Thiel
— https://youtu.be/y1qf2MCzneU?t=5434

Mistrz i Małgorzata
by Mikhail Bulgakov, Ellendea Proffer, Hans Fronius, Михаил Булгаков
"The devil shows up in Stalinist Russia, [...] and gives everybody what they want, and everything goes haywire." - Peter Thiel
— https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/peter-thiel/

The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
by Ross Douthat
"Sets the stakes for the most urgent public debate of the 2020s: How do we get back to the future?" - Peter Thiel
— https://www.firstthings.com/article/2020/03/back-to-the-future

7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
by Hamilton Wright Helmer
"[The author] understands that strategy starts with invention. He can't tell you what to invent, but he can and does show what it takes for a new invention to become a valuable business." - Peter Thiel
— https://www.amazon.com/dp/0998116319

The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
by William Rees-Mogg, James Dale Davidson
"One of the books that tremendously influenced me when I started PayPal." - Peter Thiel
— https://youtu.be/Ufm85wHJk5A?t=2618