2026 Venture Capital Reading List

Leah Solivan — Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston Alice Bentink — A Work in Progress by Rene Redzepi David Spreng — All Money Is Not Created Equal by David Spreng Caitlin Holloway — Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull Grant Lee — Seven Powers by Hamilton Helmer Vas Natarajan — Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke Alex Halliday — High Output Management by Andy Grove Andy Chen — Shoe Dog by Phil Knight PR Yu — Tao Te Ching by Laozi Christina Smolke — Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery Adeo Ressi — Palo Alto by Malcolm Harris Jack Leney — Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger TJ Rylander — By Any Means Available by Mike Vickers Kanye Makabela — Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy by Bill Janeway Ashu Garg — Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari Eugene Malobrodsky — Zero to One by Peter Thiel Aaron Jacobson — Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson and Daemon by Daniel Suarez Darian Shirazi — The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz Maria Palma — Bending Reality by Victoria Song Dr. Ed Engelman — Blind Spots by Marty Makary Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.