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First Round Capital

Sam Walton

Sam Walton

Business

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The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro

Fiction

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Alan Cooper

Max Levchin

Good to Great

James C. Collins

Business

Author Collins briefed Amazon executives on many of the principles in this book before its publication.

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Evan Williams

The Effective Executive

Peter F. Drucker

Business

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The Mythical Man

Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

Programming

The book lays out the theory behind Amazon's two pizza teams.

Built to Last

James C. Collins

Business

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Kevin Systrom

Patrick Collison

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The Goal

Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Business

This book encourages companies to identify the biggest constraints in their operations.

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Steve Jobs

Ben Horowitz

Mark Cuban

Max Levchin

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The Innovator's Dilemma

Clayton M. Christensen

Business

An enormously influential business book whose principles Amazon acted on and that facilitated the creation of the Kindle and AWS.

Creation

Steve Grand

Science

The book was influential in the creation of Amazon Web Services, or AWS, the service that popularized the notion of the cloud.

Lean Thinking

James P. Womack

Business

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Pavel Dunrov

Farnam Street

Patrick Collison

Peter Thiel

The Black Swan

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Non Fiction

Memos from the Chairman

Alan C. Greenberg

Business

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Data

Mark Jeffery

Business

Amazon employees must support all assertions with data, and if the data has a weakness, they must point it out or their colleagues will do it for them.

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