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Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

Jessica Livingston

Business / Startups

Long-form interviews with founders of Apple, PayPal, Hotmail, Lotus, Flickr and dozens more, capturing what actually happens in the first year of a startup. Graham wrote the introduction and treats it as the realest portrait of early-stage startup life ever printed.

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3 People
  • Paul Graham
    “This book can help fix that problem, by showing everyone what, till now, only a handful people got to see: what happens in the first year of a startup.”

    From Graham's essay/introduction 'Learning from Founders,' written as the foreword to Jessica Livingston's book.

    www.paulgraham.com

  • Sharif Shameem

    Starred on Sharif's shelf; listed among reads he returns to on early-stage company building.

    sharif.io

  • Alexis Ohanian
    “A bunch of really great interviews with OGs of entrepreneurship. I'm begging her to do a second book.”

    www.bookmarked.club