Felix Dennis
How To Get Rich by Felix Dennis - Part 1
When I was younger I worked with a colleague who was extremely good at what he did. Despite receiving lots of praise for the high standard of work he...
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Entrepreneurs
The Art of Money Getting by P. T. Barnum
P.T. Barnum was an incredibly successful promoter and showman. He created and ran a travelling circus that was known as “The Greatest Show On Earth”. He...
YouTube
How YouTube Started
Did you know YouTube was created by three former PayPal employees and was originally a dating site? YouTube was created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and...
How Facebook Started
From a hobby in 2004 to over 1.8 billion monthly active users, here’s the story of Facebook. While he was at Harvard, Mark Zuckerberg built websites as a...
How Pinterest Started
Pinterest is a photo sharing website that is in the top 50 most popular sites in the world. However, the visual discovery tool began as just a dream. Ben...
spotify
How Spotify Started
When two people began working on an advertisement-based free service that allowed users to listen to all of the music in the world in 2005, it changed the...
snapchat
How Snapchat Started
Snapchat is an image messaging and multimedia app originally created by three students from Stanford university. After a very slow start, it’s now hit...
dropbox
How Dropbox Started
Dropbox is an internet hosting service, allowing users to store their files in the cloud. They gathered a million users just seven months after their...
Airbnb
How Airbnb Started
Airbnb is the tale of how three men went from renting mattresses to a $30 billion company. In 2007, two housemates who were both designers, Brian Chesky...
Netflix
How Netflix Started
The Californian entertainment company Netflix began life by offering people the opportunity to rent a movie from home and receive it on DVD in the mail....
Uber
How Uber Started
Uber is worldwide transportation company. It allows its users to press a button on their app and a taxi cab will turn up for them. Travis Kalanick and...
How Instagram Started
Instagram is the largest-growing social-media platform. It was a success right from the beginning with over a million users only two months after it was...
Entrepreneurs
Your One Word by Evan Carmichael
Evan Carmichael is an entrepreneur who helps fellow entrepreneurs to succeed and prosper. His book explains the secret of how one word can transform you...
Bo Peabody
Lucky Or Smart? by Bo Peabody
Bo Peabody is an entrepreneur. The first company he built, Tripod was the 8th largest website in the world before it was sold to Lycos for $58 million in...
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Total Recall by Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Schwarzenegger has led an extraordinary life. Arriving in America as an immigrant at the age of 21, he went on to dominate bodybuilding, before...
Phil Knight
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
Phil Knight was a 24-year-old man who had just returned home to Oregon after graduating with a master’s from Stanford and serving in the US Army for a...
Henry Ford
My Life and Work by Henry Ford
Born on a farm in Michigan on 30th July 1863, as a youngster seeing all the hard, manual work taking place on the farm drew Henry Ford into mechanics. He...
Jack Ma
Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built
Jack Ma is an English teacher turned Internet entrepreneur who founded the Chinese e-commerce company called Alibaba. It is the Amazon of the East, but it...
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography
Steve Jobs is a man who revolutionised six different industries (PCs, Animated films, Music, Phones, Tablets and digital publishing). This is the story of...
Innocent Drinks
How the Innocent Drinks Company began
So I recently listened to a podcast where Richard Reed was interviewed. Richard founded the Innocent Drinks Company, which went from a fledgling start-up...
Peter Jones
Peter Jones - 10 Golden Rules to Build a Successful Business
Peter Jones is a serial entrepreneur. He has been successful in the telecommunications and publishing industries among many others. Here are this tycoon’s...
Theo Paphitis
12 Business Success Rules of Theo Paphitis
Theo Paphitis’ life has been a true rags-to-riches story. Much of his success can be attributed to his twelve business success rules. Reduce the risk When...
Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton
The social media giant Twitter had humble beginnings. It was formed by four co-founders: Ev, Noah, Jack and Biz. Evan Williams was 25 when he moved to...
Walt Disney
Magician of the Movies: The Life of Walt Disney by Bob Thomas
Walt Disney was born on the 5th December 1901 in Chicago but his first memories are of the farm that his family lived on in Missouri, as his family moved...
Derek Sivers
Anything You Want by Derek Sivers
Derek Sivers started a hobby that a decade later turned into a business that he sold for $22 million. Unusually for an entrepreneur, when Sivers decided...
Entrepreneurs
Zero to One by Peter Thiel
This book show us how one builds companies that create something new. It came about when Peter Thiel was teaching a course in Stanford in 2012. One of his...
Richard Branson
Screw It, Let's Do It by Richard Branson
Sir Richard Branson has strived for success as a businessman and in his life in general. In this book he shares nine tips on how to achieve your goals and...
Donald Trump
Trump: The Art of the Deal by Donald Trump and Tony Schwartz
Before vying to become President of the United States of America, Donald Trump wrote a book nearly thirty years ago that became one of the most successful...
Ray Kroc
Ray Kroc: McDonald’s Restaurant Builder
Ray Kroc is the man who turned McDonald’s from a single restaurant into the fast-food giant it is today. His family did not have much money growing up but...
Blake Mycoskie
Start Something That Matters by Blake Mycoskie
In 2006 Blake Mycoskie was a 29 year old entrepreneur. He founded his first company when he was 19 and ten years on he was taking a break from his fourth...
Jeff Bezos
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
The idea for Amazon came to fruition in 1994. Over 20 years later the company employs over 90,000 people and has become one of the most well known...
Elon Musk
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
Elon Musk has long since entered the consciousness of the general public. Back in early 2012 people started to take notice. One of his companies had just...
Jerry Weintraub
When I stop talking, you’ll know I’m dead by Jerry Weintraub
Jerry Weintraub was an actor, producer, promoter and agent: a true self-made philanthropist. His book “When I stop talking, you’ll know I’m dead”...
Felix Dennis
How To Get Rich by Felix Dennis - Part 3
I’ve heard many people in the past say to me that they have thought of a mind-blowingly great idea that will make them rich. Some of the ideas have indeed...
Felix Dennis
How To Get Rich by Felix Dennis - Part 2
Bill Gates has been one of the richest men in the world for several years. Elon Musk has founded several large companies including PayPal which was sold...