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.

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.

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Lena Dunham is an American actress, writer, director, and producer. She is known as the creator, writer, and star of the HBO television series Girls, for which she received several Emmy Award nominations and two Golden Globe Awards.

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Vera Mindy Chokalingam, known professionally as Mindy Kaling, is an American actress, comedian, and writer. She initially gained recognition for the NBC sitcom The Office, where she played the character Kelly Kapoor and served as a writer, executive producer, and director.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Joshua Waitzkin is an American chess player, martial arts competitor, and author. As a child, he was recognized as a prodigy, and won the U.S. Junior Chess championship in 1993 and 1994. The film "Searching for Bobby Fischer" is based on his early life.

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Arianna Huffington is a Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman. She is the founder of The Huffington Post, the founder and CEO of Thrive Global, and the author of fifteen books.

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Dr. David Sinclair, a Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, is one of the most well-known researchers in the field of rejuvenation. David is Australian-born and released his bestselling book, 'Lifespan: Why We Age and Why We Don’t Have To', in 2019.

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<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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Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, and former option trader and risk analyst, whose work concerns problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty.

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Jocko Willink is an American retired officer of the United States Navy, who served in the Navy SEAL teams. He is also a podcaster and author. His military service saw combat actions in the war in Iraq, where he eventually commanded the SEAL Team 3's Task Unit Bruiser that fought in the bloody battle

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Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years, Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.  At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination.  He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology.  He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering. 

Bill Gates is an American business magnate, software developer, investor, and philanthropist. He is best known as the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation.

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<p>Scott Pape is an author and radio commentator who lives in Melbourne, Australia. He is best known through his online persona, the Barefoot Investor, which is also the name of his hugely popular personal finance book and a business show he hosts.</p>


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George Raveling is an American college basketball player and coach. Raveling has been Nike's global basketball sports marketing director since he retired from coaching in 1994. A former FOX Sports Net color commentator, he is a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

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Andrew Wilkinson is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist. In 2006, he founded MetaLab, one of the world's top design agencies, which he grew into Tiny, a technology venture capital fund. Andrew is also the owner of Dribbble.

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Elon Musk is an engineer and technology entrepreneur. He is the founder, CEO, and chief engineer/designer of SpaceX; CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; co-founder of Neuralink; and co-founder and initial co-chairman of OpenAI.

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

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David Cancel is an American entrepreneur, investor, and founder of several software companies. He is the CEO and founder of Drift, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company which creates messaging software for businesses.

Scott Adams is the creator of the Dilbert comic strip, and the author of several nonfiction works of satire, commentary, and business. His Dilbert series came to national prominence through the downsizing period in 1990s America and was then distributed worldwide.

Scott

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

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Scott Belsky is an American entrepreneur, author and early-stage investor best known for co-creating the online portfolio platform, Behance, Inc.

Raymond Dalio is an American billionaire investor, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist. Dalio is the founder, co-chairman and co-chief investment officer of investment firm Bridgewater Associates, one of the world's largest hedge funds. Bloomberg ranked him as the world's 79th-wealthiest person in February 2020.

George Hatzis is an Australian designer and maker. He is the founder of Checklist Design and also makes infographics about movies and TV shows.

Nancy Pearl is an American librarian, best-selling author, literary critic and the former Executive Director of the Washington Center for the Book at Seattle Public Library.

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David Hellmann is an award-winning Digital Designer & Developer based in Linz, Austria. He is the founder of Best Website Gallery and has worked for Red Bull and renowned digital agencies nexum AG, Fork Unstable Media & fredmansky.

Gary Vaynerchuk is born on November 14, 1975. He is a Belarusian American entrepreneur, New York Times best-selling author, speaker and internet personality. First known as a wine critic who expanded his family’s wine business, Vaynerchuk is best known for his work in digital marketing and social media as the chairman of New York-based communications company, VaynerX, and as CEO of VaynerX subsidiary, VaynerMedia.

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Brian Joseph Chesky is an American businessman and industrial designer. He is the co-founder and CEO of the peer-to-peer lodging service Airbnb. Chesky was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People of 2015".

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Edwin Van Wyck Zschau represented California's 12th District in the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 1987. In 1986 he ran as the Republican candidate for a seat in the United States Senate.

Chris Fussell is a former Navy SEAL Officer and a Partner at McChrystal Group. Fussell leads the McChrystal Group Leadership Institute, bringing his Special Operations experience and his expertise in cross-functional collaboration and knowledge sharing to help develop leaders and build effective teams within large, dispersed organizations.

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Walter Isaacson is an American historian, journalist, and writer. He is the University Professor of History at Tulane University.

Henry Kissinger, who was sworn in as secretary of state in 1973, had by then become one of the most admired men in America and perhaps the most unlikely celebrity ever to capture the world's imagination.  Yet Kissinger, who was born in Germany, had also acquired a reputation for being coldhearted and overly ambitious.  The author of this biography explores Kissinger's personality and his foreign policy to reach a conclusion about this complicated public official.  Contributions from 150 sources, including many of Kissinger's personal friends and clients as well as U. S.  presidents, enrich the narrative. 

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Isaacson shows how Franklin helped define a national character that was inventive, pragmatic, and curious about the world.  In equally fascinating chapters, Isaacson chronicles Franklin's life from Boston to Philadelphia to London and Paris and back, from his apprenticeship as a runaway and his run for political office to his multiple passions and accomplishments, including writing, inventing, publishing, science, diplomacy, business strategy, and politics. 

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The Innovators tells a riveting, propulsive story of the people who created the computer and the Internet.  What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into disruptive realities? What led to their creative leaps? Why did some succeed and others fail? The Innovators is a masterly saga of collaborative genius destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution—and an indispensable guide to how innovation really happens.  Isaacson begins the adventure with Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron’s daughter, who pioneered computer programming in the 1840s.  He explores the fascinating personalities that created our current digital revolution. 

Brian Edward Cox OBE, FRS is an English physicist who serves as professor of particle physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester.

The Innovators

Walter Isaacson, the bestselling author of Steve Jobs, Einstein, and Benjamin Franklin, presents Leonardo da Vinci in this exciting and insightful biography.  Based on historical sources and Isaacson’s extensive research into Leonardo’s life and work, Leonardo da Vinci brings this remarkable Renaissance man to life as a writer, anatomist, scientist, inventor, painter and sculptor.  Da Vinci was a genius who produced the most famous paintings in history: The Last Supper and Mona Lisa.  But in his mind he was just as much a man of science and technology.  With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany and geology. 

Austen Allred is the Co-Founder and CEO of Bloom Institute of Technology.

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Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn’t become scientists, she decided to—and by the time she was in sixth grade, she had already picked up a book that would help spark her interest and get her started.  But then, when she came home from school and saw it sitting on her bed .  .  .  Wait, what’s this? It’s nothing like the detective novels I love —no, it’s way different than that.  No, it’s even better than that! It’s about the race to discover the code of life.  The excitement of that race kept my eyes glued to the pages; I couldn’t stop reading until I thought through every possibility of who might win that race.  And when I found out who did win—well, let me tell you, it was a great moment!

Terrance is the founder of McArthur Capital, a investment management company comprised of securities, real estate, small businesses and venture investments. He runs the site Good Books in his free time. 

Terrance

The Code Breaker

In this epic, revelatory biography, celebrated author Walter Isaacson—who expertly captured the spirit of Steve Jobs in his bestselling biography and the mind of Benjamin Franklin in The Innovators—chronicles the life and scientific brain of Albert Einstein.  Tracing Einstein’s journey from his early days as a rebellious teenager to his later achievements, Isaacson delivers an insightful portrayal of the man behind the legend, illustrating how Einstein's imagination sprang from his rebellious nature and how his inventive creativity stemmed from questioning conventional wisdom.  An intriguing exploration into Einstein's life and work, this book provides a captivating look at how an imaginative patent clerk who couldn't get a teaching job or a doctorate managed to become one of history's greatest minds. 

Mark Zuckerberg is an American internet entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is known for co-founding and leading Facebook, Inc. and its namesake social networking website as its chairman, chief executive officer, and controlling shareholder.

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