Chase Jarvis is an American photographer, director, artist, and entrepreneur. Since April 2014, Jarvis has been the chief executive officer of CreativeLive, an online education platform that he co-founded in 2010.

Chase

Antonio García Martínez is an American New York Times Best Selling author and tech entrepreneur. He is a former product manager for Facebook, the CEO-founder of AdGrok and a former quantitative analyst for Goldman Sachs.

Antonio García Martínez

Nir Eyal is an Israeli-born American author, lecturer and investor known for his bestselling book, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products.

Frank

Jake Knapp is the inventor of the Design Sprint and a New York Times bestselling author. He’s written two books, Sprint and Make Time, and has coached teams at places like Slack, LEGO, IDEO, and NASA on design strategy and time management.

Jake

David Allen is a productivity consultant who is best known as the creator of the time management method known as "Getting Things Done".

David

Marie Forleo is an American life coach, motivational speaker, author and web television host of Marie TV. She is the owner of Marie Forleo International, B-School and MarieTV.

Marie

James Clear is a personal development keynote speaker and New York Times bestselling author of Atomic Habits. His entertaining talks teach audiences about small habits, decision-making, and continuous improvement.

James

Adam M. Grant is an American psychologist and author who is currently a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania specializing in organizational psychology. He received academic tenure aged 28, making him the youngest tenured professor at the Wharton School.

Adam

As a corporate tech designer and internet consultant, Paul Jarvis spent years working with professional athletes like Warren Sapp, Steve Nash and Shaquille O'Neal with their online presence, and with large companies like Yahoo, Microsoft, Mercedes-Benz and Warner Music.

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Seth Godin is the author of 18 books. He's also the founder of the online workshops altMBA and The Marketing Seminar. Godin has founded several companies, including Yoyodyne and Squidoo. In 2018, he was inducted into the Marketing Hall of Fame.

Seth

Peter Thiel is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is a co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies and Founders Fund. He was ranked No. 328 on the Forbes 400 in 2018, with a net worth of $2.5 billion.

Peter

Derek Sivers is an American writer, musician, programmer and entrepreneur best known for being the founder and former president of CD Baby, an online CD store for independent musicians.

Derek

Tim Ferriss has been listed as one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and one of Fortune’s “40 under 40.” He is an early-stage technology investor/advisor and the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers. The Tim Ferriss Show podcast has now exceeded 400 million downloads.

Broderick Stephen Harvey is an American comedian, businessman and entertainer. He hosts The Steve Harvey Morning Show, Family Feud, Celebrity Family Feud, the Miss Universe competition and Fox's New Year's Eve. Harvey began his career as a comedian.

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Jason Zweig first started writing a personal finance column for The Wall Street Journal in 2008. Zweig also edited Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor, which Warren Buffett said "by far the finest book about investing ever published." He's the author of Your Money and Your Brain, one of the first books to look at investing's biology, as well as The Devil's Financial Dictionary, a satirical lexicon of Wall Street jargon.

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A team of 21 researchers read 6,000 articles, generated more than 2,000 pages of interview transcripts, and created 384 megabytes of computer data during a five-year project to explore the keys to greatness.  The findings will surprise many readers and upset others. 

Brian Armstrong is the co-founder and chief executive of Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the U.S. Coinbase raised $300 million in October 2018 in a financing round led by Tiger Global that valued the company at $8 billion.

Brian

Ev Williams is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur who has founded several Internet companies. Williams was previously chairman and CEO of Twitter. He also founded Blogger and Medium, two of the largest and most notable blog distribution websites.

Nat Eliason is the CEO and founder of Growth Machine, an SEO-focused growth agency, and co-founder of Cup & Leaf Tea. He is also the author of “Come Again?” and writes about psychology, sex, money, travel, entrepreneurship, drugs, and everything else you’d find interesting at nateliason.com.

<p>&nbsp;Simon Oliver Sinek is a British-American author and motivational speaker. His first book, Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action , was published in 2009; his most recent book, <a href="https://bestbooks.to/book/the-infinite-game_simon-sinek" target="_self">The Infinite Gam</a>e: The Pursuit of Happiness in Its Own Terms , was published in 2017. He has been featured as a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show, TEDx conferences, and at the United Nations Global Compact Leaders Summit.</p>


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Matt D’Avella is a filmmaker known for his hit Netflix documentary, Minimalism: A Documentary About The Important Things. He has amassed an enourmous following on YouTube where he shares videos on minimalism, psychology, fitness, personal finance and life. He also hosts a popular podcast called The Groud Up Show.

Matt

Jason Calacanis is an American Internet entrepreneur, angel investor, author and podcaster.

Drew Houston is an American Internet entrepreneur, and the co-founder and CEO of Dropbox, an online backup and storage service.

Drew

Alfred Lin is an American venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital. Lin was the COO, CFO, and Chairman of Zappos.com until 2010.

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Frank Blake is an American businessman and lawyer, who was the chairman and CEO of The Home Depot from January 2007 to May 2014.

Julie Stevanja is the co-founder and CEO of e-commerce powerhouse Stylerunner, which she founded in 2012 after a stint in London working for movie streaming site Mubi.

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Daniel Ek is a Swedish billionaire entrepreneur and technologist. Ek is best known as the co-founder and CEO of the music streaming service Spotify.

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Maksymilian Rafailovych "Max" Levchin is a Ukrainian-born American software engineer. In 1998, soon after graduating from college, he co-founded the company that eventually became PayPal.

Matej Latin is a Senior Product designer at GitLab and is based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He writes about design, minimalism and typography.

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Margaret Cushing Whitman is an American business executive, political activist, and philanthropist. She is the CEO of Quibi, and serves on the boards of Procter & Gamble and Dropbox. Whitman previously served as president and CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

L. John Doerr is an American author, investor and venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins in Menlo Park, California.

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Jeffrey Preston Bezos is an American internet and aerospace entrepreneur, media proprietor, and investor. He is best known as the founder, Chief executive officer, and president of Amazon.com, Inc. The first centi-billionaire on the Forbes wealth index, Bezos was named the “richest man in modern history” after his net worth increased to $150 billion in July 2018. In September 2018, Forbes described him as “far richer than anyone else on the planet” as he added $1.8 billion to his worth when Amazon became the second company in history to have a market cap of $1 trillion.

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Tracy DiNunzio is the CEO and Founder of RecycledBride.com and Tradesy.com. She is a wedding and fashion expert who makes frequent speaking and media appearances on the topics of weddings, fashion, technology, entrepreneurship, and sustainable living.

Tracy

Satya Narayana Nadella is an Indian American business executive. He is the chief executive officer of Microsoft, succeeding Steve Ballmer in 2014. Before becoming CEO, he was the executive vice president of Microsoft's cloud and enterprise group, responsible for building and running the company's computing platforms.

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Good to Great

Jim Collins is an American researcher, author, speaker and consultant focused on the subject of business management and company sustainability and growth.

How do the mighty fall? In this book, Jim Collins tackled the question by looking at historical examples.  He sought to determine what sort of factors led companies like IBM and Xerox to their downfall.  What he found was that there is a five-step process or recipe for corporate suicide.  The steps are: 1) Hubris Born of Success, 2) Undisciplined Pursuit of More, 3) Denial of Risk and Peril, 4) Grasping for Salvation, and 5) Capitulation to Irrelevance or Death.  By understanding how companies fall from even their loftiest of heights, we can take measures to avoid the same fate. 

How the Mighty Fall

Based on the results of a six-year research project at Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Built to Last combines the knowledge gained from studying eighteen truly exceptional and long-lasting companies with the authors’ own expertise in the field of business management.  Throughout this book, Collins and Porras ask: What makes the truly exceptional companies different from their competitors? Filled with hundreds of specific examples and organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers and entrepreneurs at all levels, Built to Last provides a master blueprint for building organizations that will prosper long into the 21st century. 

Built to Last

This book provides a wealth of practical knowledge for entrepreneurs to help their companies sustain high performance, play a leadership role in their industries, and remain great for generations.  The examples of real-world businesses used throughout the book include Nike, L. L.  Bean, Wal-Mart, and Federal Express. 

Reed Hastings is an American entrepreneur. He is the co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Netflix and serves on a number of boards and non-profit organizations. A former member of the California State Board of Education, Hastings is an advocate for education reform through charter schools.

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Beyond Entrepreneurship

In Great by Choice, Jim Collins and Morten T.  Hansen examine the principles for building a great enterprise in unpredictable, tumultuous, and fast-moving times.  The new study: Great by Choice distinguishes itself from Good to Great by its focus on the kind of unstable environments faced by leaders today.  The new findings: Great by Choice describes how leaders increase their personal discipline and develop greater trust in the process of learning, while also making fast decisions and taking decisive action more reliable than they would be if they worried about what everyone else was doing.  This research was supported by the Kellogg Innovation Fund at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. 

Tony Hsieh is an American internet entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is the CEO of the online shoe and clothing company Zappos. Prior to joining Zappos, Hsieh co-founded the internet advertising network LinkExchange, which he sold to Microsoft in 1998 for $265 million.

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