Austen Allred

Author, Billionaire, Entrepreneur, Executive, Investor

Austen Allred is CEO and co-founder of Bloomtech (formerly Lambda School). Bloomtech is an online platform that educates future software engineers and scientists for free. In exchange, Bloomtech alumni give a share of their future income for two years. Austen also never enjoyed or appreciated academia.

Austen Allred's 27 Book Recommendations

• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
• Empires of Light
• Principles
• Leonardo da Vinci
• The Wright Brothers
• Titan
• The Snowball
• Shoe Dog
• Working Backwards
• Snow Crash
• Storm of Steel
• A First-Rate Madness
• Masters of Doom
• Ready Player One
• Elon Musk
• Anna Karenina
• Can't Hurt Me
• Meditations
• Les Miserables
• The Upside of Stress
• Dealers of Lightning
• Travels with Charley in Search of America
• Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
• Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age
• Hackers
• Essentialism
• A Guide to the Good Life