Since I was a child Jeff Bezos he excelled in the area of technology and proved to be a very intelligent young man, something that allowed him to study at the prestigious Princeton University. He was always passionate about reading and a biography revealed what are the books that shaped him to be one of the most important tycoons in the world.
At 58 years old, the founder and CEO of Amazon He is one of the richest people in the world with a net worth of more than $180 billion. The journalist Brad Stone decided to write about him in the book “The Everything Store” to tell about his beginnings, how he made his fortune and a list of bookswhich his employees call “Jeff’s reading list.”
Los books who marked Jeff Bezos
Built to Last : Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
This book was written by James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras, and published in 1994. In its pages, they recount successful habits of visionary companies and describe the results of a six-year research project that explores what leads to lasting companies and excellent. Is available in Amazon for $13.49 dollars.
the blind watchmaker
It is a popular science book written by biologist Richard Dawkins, published in 1986. It has different chapters in which he explains how the principle of natural selection works and was praised for his influential work on evolution, even mentioning topics of Charles Darwin. “The Blind Watchmaker” is on Amazon at a price of $9.9 dollars.
The black swan: the impact of the highly improbable
It was published in 2007 and written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. The plot focuses on the extreme impact of rare and unpredictable atypical events, how to deal with these overnight events, and the human tendency to find simplistic explanations. the price in Amazon it is $11.69 dollars.
Dune
Jeff Bezos he is also a fan of science fiction and one of the best books he read was “Dune,” the same one that inspired the movie starring Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya. The story of the book is about Paul Atreides, a young man who receives the mission to protect the planet Arrakis, which contains one of the most powerful resources in the universe. Its price is $9.89 dollars.
did you know any of these books? Did you read them?
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