What are the books that influenced Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Bill Gates?
The following books shaped tech's most influential people and helped them become the CEOs and global leaders they are today.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos enjoys business book "Built to Last" and a fictional novel, "The Remains of the Day."
Given that Jeff Bezos founded Amazon as a marketplace for books, it's not surprising he reads a lot. He once told told Fast Company he buys 10 books per month.
His favorites? Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
He told Newsweek: "If you read The Remains of the Day, which is one of my favorite books, you can't help but come away and think, I just spent 10 hours living an alternate life and I learned something about life and about regret."
Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh is a fan of "Tribal Leadership" by Dave Logan, John King and Halee Fischer-Wright.
Tony Hsieh is building up downtown Las Vegas as a hot new tech hub, and he's also the CEO of Amazon-owned shoe company, Zappos.
He enjoys the book Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization
"Tribal Leadership codifies a lot of what we've been doing instinctually and provides a great framework for all companies to bring company culture to the next level," he says.
Microsoft's Bill Gates recently told the Reddit community that his favorite book of the last decade is Steven Pinker’s “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined.”
In a recent Reddit Ask Me Anything, Microsoft founder Bill Gates named his favorite book of the last decade: Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined.
"It's a long but profound look at the reduction in violence and discrimination over time," Gates explained.
Other favorites include J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye.
"It's very clever. It acknowledges that young people are a little confused, but can be smart about things and see things that adults don't really see. So I've always loved it," he told the Academy of Achievement.
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