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Bill Gurley's Reading List

Benchmark venture capitalist; investor in Uber, Zillow, OpenTable, GrubHub; longtime essayist on technology and markets.

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Books from The Tim Ferriss Show: Bill Gurley — Investing in The AI Era, 10 Days in China (2025)

Extracted via LLM from auto-captions of The Tim Ferriss Show (2025-12-17).

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Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey · 2020 · Buy on Amazon
"I started listening to Green Lights and I was told you had to listen to it cuz of course he reads it so you get all the great MCA affections as you read it."
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The Last Laugh: The World of Standup Comics
Phil Berger · Buy on Amazon
"He read this book and it profiled them in a way that was very disinhibiting to him. It gave him permission to go do this career that's not a typical career."
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Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital
Carlota Perez · 2002 · Buy on Amazon
"What Perez kind of simplifies and notices is that every time there's been a technology wave that leads to wealth creation..."
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Breakneck
Dan Wang · 2025 · Buy on Amazon
"Dan Wang shared his book Breakneck with me right before I left and I read it while I was there, which was interesting."
Cover of Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Angela Duckworth · 2018 · Buy on Amazon
"I had the opportunity to talk to Angela Duckworth when I was working on this and her book Grit talks about two components, passion and perseverance."
Cover of Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Michael Lewis · Buy on Amazon
"He reads a book called Moneyball — the Michael Lewis book about the Oakland A's — in almost what seems like an instant decided I really need to be in sports analytics."
Cover of The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward
The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward
Daniel Pink · Buy on Amazon
"Daniel Pink has this great book on regret and he talks about it as a valid motivator to get you to make good decisions."
Cover of Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life
Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life
Arthur C. Brooks · Buy on Amazon
"I would encourage you to read Arthur Brooks's book, Strength to Strength."

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