Venture capitalists invest in a business, usually in exchange for a piece of ownership. As they make investments, the best VCs depend on these books for crucial market intelligence and insights into our world.
Our favorite Venture Capital authors
Many of the most successful and wealthiest people share one key trait. They are avid readers.
- Anne Gherini
It About Damn Time
By Arlan HamiltonFrom a black, gay woman who broke into the boys’ club of Silicon Valley comes an empowering guide to finding your voice, working your way into any room you want to be in, and achieving your own dreams.
Leapfrog
By Nathalie Molina NiñoFor women entrepreneurs (and anyone sick of the status quo), this smart, unapologetic collection delivers fifty proven hacks to leapfrog over obstacles and succeed in business.
Business of Venture Capital
By Mahendra RamsinghaniThe definitive guide to demystifying the venture capital business from raising funds and structuring investments to assessing exit pathways.
Zero to One
By Peter ThielThe great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things.
Venture Capital For Dummies
By Nicole GravagnaVenture Capital For Dummies takes entrepreneurs step by step through the process of finding and securing venture capital for their own projects.
Black Business Secrets
By Dante LeeBlack Business Secrets discusses the entrepreneurial skills that African-American business owners must master in order to compete in a world where most new companies fail within three years.
The Glass Closet
By John BrowneLord John Browne, former CEO of BP, seeks to unsettle business leaders by exposing the culture of homophobia that remains rampant in corporations around the world, and which prevents employees from showing their authentic selves.
Brotopia
By Emily ChangBloomberg TV journalist Emily Chang reveals how Silicon Valley got so sexist despite its utopian ideals, why bro culture endures despite decades of companies claiming the moral high ground, and how women are finally starting to speak out and fight back.
The Culture Code
By Daniel CoyleA book that demystifies the culture-building process by identifying three key skills that generate cohesion and cooperation, and explains how diverse groups learn to function with a single mind.
Super Founders
By Ali TamasebSuper Founders uses a data-driven approach to understand what really differentiates billion-dollar startups from the rest—revealing that nearly everything we thought was true about them is false!