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Founder Mode: The Essential Startup Reading List

These are the best startup books for founders who are actually building something. This essential startup reading list covers the whole arc: finding an idea worth pursuing, testing it before you quit your job, landing your first customers, hiring a team, and surviving the parts nobody warns you about. From Peter Thiel on building something genuinely new, to Ben Horowitz on the hard things, to Phil Knight's Nike memoir, these are the entrepreneur books that founders actually recommend to each other.