Chris Dixon
Author, Entrepreneur, Executive, Investor
Chris Dixon is an entrepreneur and investor who co-founded SiteAdvisor in 2005 and Hunch in 2009, joined Andreessen Horowitz in 2012 as a general partner and leads its crypto funds. He wrote Read Write Own (2024).
Chris Dixon's 26 Book Recommendations
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things
- The Innovator's Dilemma
- Zero to One
- The Lean Startup
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb
- Where Wizards Stay Up Late
- Skin in the Game
- Crossing the Chasm
- High Growth Handbook
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- The Last Days of Night
- How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone
- Farsighted
- Empires of Light
- Creative Selection
- Dead Wake
- American Kingpin
- How We Got to Now: “I really enjoyed Steven Johnson's How We Got To Now. I read a lot of history and science books, but this book stood out”
- Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages: “Here's a chart (from this excellent book by Carlota Perez via Fred Wilson)”
- The Entrepreneur's Guide to Business Law: “Every entrepreneur should read The Entrepreneur's Guide to Business Law”
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: “I read this book, Gödel, Escher, Bach, which was a sort of mind-blowing book at the time.”
- The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea: “There's a book I really like called The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea. This is a fascinating book.”
- Fact, Fiction, and Forecast: “Nelson Goodman was one of my favorites. Funny enough, I just bought it again — Fact, Fiction, and Forecast.”
- Naming and Necessity: “Kripke — Naming and Necessity is his legendary book on reference and language.”
- Being and Time: “I'm trying to read Being and Time right now — Heidegger.”
- A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life: “George Saunders, this book, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, that was a great book I read”