Karlie Kloss: "It’s an amazing book on the beginning of humanity. It’s scientific but also philosophical."

Joe Rogan: "Great book... Fucking fascinating... Very enlightening."

Patrick O'Shaughnessy: "This book was so entertaining and useful.

It provides a concise history of humankind and outlines why we have the psychology we do today (this part is great for thinking about investor behavior)."

Changpeng Zhao: "[This book] gives me a greater perspective about how humans emerged and why we behave the way we do."

Daniel Ek: "One of the most-talked-about books of the last couple of years, and for good reason.

Both sobering and conservatively optimistic in equal measure, it seems even more relevant for us at the moment to learn from our socio-anthropological history."

Anthony Pompliano: "One of the best books I read in 2017"

Naval Ravikant: "An orthogonal and clinical examination of the human animal, from the beginning to now.

Humans are story-telling alpha predators that killed the competition and domesticated the survivors. This is our story, and it's not all pretty."

David Sacks: "Yuval Harari’s Sapiens had a big impact on how I approach VC. The theme of the book is that humans obsess over narratives.

So I try to focus on product and metrics as a way to get to ground truth, as opposed to over-indexing on the pitch, which is mostly a story-telling event."

Melinda Gates mentioned this book as one of her 11 favorite books.

Reid Hoffman: "Sapiens has had me thinking a lot about the evolution of humanity and what our future looks like."

Mark Zuckerberg: "I found the chapter on the evolution of the role of religion in human life most interesting and something I wanted to go deeper on."

Raoul Pal enjoyed reading 'Sapiens'.

One of the books Keith Rabois recommends for entrepreneurs.

Bill Gurley: "I really enjoyed [Sapiens]"

Bill Gates: "Melinda and I spent weeks talking about this history of the human race."

Fred Wilson: "Chapter five in 'The Hard Thing About Hard Things' is possibly the best thing I’ve read about leading a tech company"

Peter Thiel: “Every management guide presumes that all great companies follow a formula. But successful startups don’t imitate; they build innovations that can’t be copied.

Ben Horowitz knows no recipe guarantees success. He has written the first true guide for protecting a startup from self-sabotage.”

Raoul Pal: "Without question, to me, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz is, by far, the best, most brutally honest and incredibly useful book about the realities of starting and running a company, ever written."

Tim Ferriss: "A great book"

Larry Page: "Ben's book is a great read - with uncomfortable truths about entrepreneurship and how to lead to a company.

It's also an inspiring story of a business rebirth through sheer willpower."

Andrew Wilkinson: "'The Hard Things About Hard Things' by Ben Horowitz is one of the best business books I've picked up in years."

Marc Andreessen mentioned 'The Hard Thing about Hard Things' on 'The Tim Ferriss Show' podcast.

Blake Scholl: "'The Hard Thing about Hard Things' is good."

One of Max Levchin's answers to 'What's your favourite business book you'd advise to young entrepreneurs?'

One of the books Keith Rabois recommends for entrepreneurs.

Luis von Ahn read 'The Hard Thing About Hard Things' twice.

One of five business books Chris Dixon recommended on Twitter.

Sheryl Sandberg: "[The Lean Startup] provides a great inside look at how the tech industry approaches building products and businesses."

Kevin Systrom: "I don’t know that I read the entire thing, but the principles from Lean Startup, I still apply today."

Mark Cuban: “The Lean Startup tackles the question, 'Why do most start-ups fail?'"

Marc Andreessen: "Eric has created a science where previously there was only art.

A must-read for every serious entrepreneur - and every manager interested in innovation."

Jason Calacanis: "You need to read 'The Lean Startup'"

One of five business books Chris Dixon recommended on Twitter.

Raoul Pal enjoyed reading 'The Lean Startup'.

Anthony Pompliano: "One of the best books I read in 2017"

Michael Mauboussin: "Superforecasting is most important book since Thinking, Fast & Slow"

Sam Hinkie: "Remarkable book"

Shane Parrish: "This is the second time I’ve read this book."

Alexis Ohanian: "I think it applies interestingly to the work we do"

Raoul Pal recommended 'Superforecasting' on Twitter.

Daniel Ek: "A brilliant Pulitzer Prize–winning book about how the modern world was formed, analyzing how societies developed differently on different continents.

I like how this is written from a biologist’s point of view rather than purely based on history or anthropology."

Joe Rogan: "Guns Germs and Steel is an amazing book."

Charlie Munger recommended 'Guns, Germs, and Steel' in his book Poor Charlie's Almanack.

Included on Jamie Dimon's list of favorite books he sent to JP Morgan summer interns in 2010.

Raoul Pal said 'Guns, Germs, and Steel' influenced his macro thinking on Twitter.

Michael Saylor: "This book blew my mind; it is a work of genius. It put together the technical, economic, motivational and related issues around Bitcoin better than anything I've seen.

The best compliment I can give this book is that I read it and I decided to buy $425m of bitcoin. It was the most impactful on our way of thinking in Microstrategy and it made us want to invert our balance sheet to base it on a bitcoin standard."

Anthony Scaramucci: "This is a seminal work and recommended reading for everyone."

Nassim Taleb: "Bitcoin has no owner, no authority that can decide on its fate. It is owned by the crowd, its users.

And it now has a track record of several years, enough for it to be an animal in its own right.

This gives us, the crowd, an insurance policy against an Orwellian future."

Lyn Alden: "Saifedean Ammous, in his book The Bitcoin Standard, emphasizes the improved divisibility of gold due to banking technology [as a reason for gold winning over silver]."

Raoul Pal recommended 'The Bitcoin Standard' on Twitter.

Anthony Pompliano: "One of the best books I read in 2017"

Raoul Pal enjoyed reading 'The Undoing Project'.

One of Mark Cuban's Summer 2018 Books to Read.

Vinod Khosla: "Not that I agree with all of it, but it is still mind-bending speculation about our future as a follow-up to a previous favorite, Sapiens. It’s directionally right."

Naval Ravikant: "Didn't finish it. Good book but not as seminal as Sapiens."

Raoul Pal enjoyed reading 'Homo Deus'.

Bill Gates: "A provocative new book raises big questions about the future."

Raoul Pal: "Amazing read. Financial book of the year."

Michael Mauboussin: "Amazing book about human nature"

Alexis Ohanian: "An incredible story.... If you need some billionaires to despise -- look no further than these charlatans."

Anthony Pompliano: "Just finished reading the book Billon Dollar Whale. Worth checking out"

One of Max Levchin's answers to 'What's your favourite business book you'd advise to young entrepreneurs?'

Raoul Pal recommended 'The Ascent of Money' on Twitter.

Anthony Scaramucci: "Peter (Schiff) would be well served to read 'The Ascent of Money' by Niall Ferguson, then study the mathematical properties of Bitcoin, and then open his mind to the certainty that our advances in technology have made our money (incorruptible) better. Follow the history first."

Ryan Petersen: "Great"

Shane Parrish: "It seems that throughout history we, as a people, forget that sources of trouble that are small can have huge implications.

We forget that leverage makes us fragile. Just when we think we’ve figured out the world and reduced it to an equation based on empirical evidence, it changes and lights a tinderbox."

David Friedberg: "Go read the book 'When Genius Failed', it's a great story."

One of Max Levchin's answers to 'What's your favourite business book you'd advise to young entrepreneurs?'

Raoul Pal recommended 'When Genius Failed' on Twitter.

Patrick O'Shaughnessy: "An older book, but a wonderful history of our concept of risk.

This is a valuable read for any serious investor out there (and an enjoyable one for casual investors)."

Michael Mauboussin: "Traces the path of the intellectual understand of risk. A must read."

Howard Marks: “Bernstein talks in this book about the development of the science of probability and how the concepts of probability permitted us to get involved in transferring risk from those of us who want to avoid risk to those of us who are willing to take it – and I think that that is an essential concept.”

Raoul Pal recommended 'Against the [Gods]' on Twitter.

Marc Andreessen: "I've always wondered what would have happened if we had built one-click payments into the browser from the very beginning. With bitcoin, we finally get this 'Internet of Money'.

But this book isn't just an ode to bitcoin -- it's an ode to open protocols, what happens when you connect people online, and the power of innovation on the internet."

Balaji Srinivasan: "With Mastering Bitcoin, Andreas Antonopoulos wrote one of the best technical books on digital currency. With The Internet of Money, he's matched that feat by compiling his talks into one of the best books on Bitcoin for a broad audience. Highly recommended!"

Raoul Pal: "This book will help you understand the technology and the philosophical potential of the [Bitcoin] space"

Michael Saylor recommended The Internet of Money on his Bitcoin website, Hope.com

Marc Andreessen: "Brynjolfsson and McAfee are right: we are on the cusp of a dramatically different world brought on by technology. 

The Second Machine Age is the book for anyone who wants to thrive in it. I’ll encourage all of our entrepreneurs to read it, and hope their competitors don’t."

Reid Hoffman: "The Second Machine Age offers important insights into how digital technologies are transforming our economy, a process that has only just begun.

Erik and Andrew’s thesis: As massive technological innovation radically reshapes our world, we need to develop new business models, new technologies, and new policies that amplify our human capabilities, so every person can stay economically viable in an age of increasing automation. I couldn’t agree more."

Raoul Pal said 'The Second Machine Age' influenced his macro thinking on Twitter.

Will Marshall: "Key learning from the book 'The Second Machine Age': Learn to be useful to/symbiotic with computers. Best output will come from a human-AI team."

Naval Ravikant: "Good books are worth re-reading. Great books are worth re-buying."

Raoul Pal recommended 'The Black Swan' on Twitter.

Included on Jeff Bezos' list of books that Amazon employees refer to as “Jeff’s Reading List.”

David Friedberg: "Read the book Lifespan by David Sinclair. The book highlights a lot of his research and findings and paths forward for improving longevity."

Vinod Khosla: "This book reveals scientific breakthroughs about aging and ways we can slow down or reverse the process.

It makes me wonder - should we solve diseases or solve aging that increases the propensity for diseases?"

Raoul Pal said 'Lifespan' influenced his macro thinking on Twitter.

Marc Andreessen: "Startlingly deep cultural history of conspiracies, examined through the lens of the brutally effective Gawker takedown, with full access to the main players."

Raoul Pal enjoyed reading 'Conspiracy'.

Tony Robbins: "[Read this] because you have to understand that life has seasons."

Raoul Pal said 'The Fourth Turning' influenced his macro thinking on Twitter.

Warren Buffett: "A wonderful book.”

Raoul Pal: "It's a great book"

Nassim Taleb: "I've read the book at several stages of my career as it shows the staying power of good down-to-earth wisdoms of true practitioners with skin in the game.

This is the central document showing the heuristics that real-life traders use to manage their affairs, how people who do rather than talk have done things.

Twenty years from now, it will still be fresh. There is no other like it."

Raoul Pal recommended 'Market Wizards' on Twitter.

Larry Summers: "It is the definitive informal history of financial bubbles and euphorias, which have done so much to shape history—whether it was the stock market bubble that preceded the Great Depression or the bubble in Japan in the late 1980s or the mania associated with tulips in Holland centuries ago."

Raoul Pal recommended 'Manias, Panics, and Crashes' on Twitter.

Balaji Srinivasan: "Andreas M. Antonopoulos does it again. The second volume of 'The Internet of Money' is perhaps the single best reference to get a quick overview of the latest developments in Bitcoin, Ethereum, ICOs, and the blockchain space in general"

Raoul Pal: "This book will help you understand the technology and the philosophical potential of the [Bitcoin] space"

Michael Saylor recommended The Price of Tomorrow on his Bitcoin website, Hope.com

Raoul Pal said 'The Price of Tomorrow' influenced his macro thinking on Twitter.

Raoul Pal: "It’s an amazing book"

Raoul Pal enjoyed reading 'Trust Me I'm Lying'.

Raoul Pal enjoyed reading 'Chaos Monkeys'.

Raoul Pal recommended 'Freakonomics' on Twitter.

Raoul Pal: "It’s the best historical finance book I’ve ever read and so useful for current times."

Raoul Pal recommended 'The New Market Wizards' on Twitter.

Raoul Pal recommended 'Inside The House of Money' on Twitter.

Raoul Pal: "It’s really good!"

Raoul Pal: "A HUGE inspiration for me"

Raoul Pal: "You can ignore the fact that I'm in it, otherwise its rather good!"

Raoul Pal: "A great read!"

Robert Kaplan's book loosely inspired Raoul Pal's Monsoon theory.

Raoul Pal: "It’s a great book"

Raoul Pal enjoyed reading 'David Bowie'.

Raoul Pal enjoyed reading 'Why Minsky Matters'.

Raoul Pal enjoyed reading 'The Sheltering Sky'.

Raoul Pal: "Loved this book."

Raoul Pal: "This was an incredible book, the EU was a small part of his incredible insight.

The counter arguement to WTO and unbridled globalisation was extraordinarily prophetic."

Raoul Pal said 'The Crisis of Global Capitalism' influenced his macro thinking on Twitter.

Raoul Pal said 'The Great Rupture' influenced his macro thinking on Twitter.

Raoul Pal recommended 'Timelines of World History' on Twitter.

Raoul Pal recommended 'DeMark Indicators' on Twitter.

Raoul Pal recommended 'The Creature from Jekyll Island' on Twitter.

Raoul Pal recommended 'This Time Is Different' on Twitter.

Raoul Pal: "Fascinating"