Keith Rabois

Entrepreneur, Executive, Investor

Keith Rabois is an American technology executive and investor. He is currently a general partner at Founders Fund. He is widely known for his early-stage startup investments and his executive roles at PayPal, LinkedIn, Slide, and Square.

Keith Rabois's 115 Book Recommendations

• Reagan: His Life and Legend: “Today's reading.”
• Margaret Thatcher: Herself Alone: The Authorized Biography: “Today's reading.”
• The Monk and the Riddle
• Warfighting
• Planet Google
• Return to the Little Kingdom
• The Art of the Start 2.0
• Spent
• Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition
• Get Back in the Box
• Behave
• Red Notice
• Grit
• The Seventh Sense
• Breath
• Red Star Over the Pacific
• Radical Uncertainty: Decision-Making Beyond the Numbers
• Life 3.0
• The Splendid and the Vile
• Skin in the Game
• The Extended Mind
• The Vision of the Anointed
• Who Is Michael Ovitz?
• Quirky
• Why We Sleep
• Talent Wins
• Range
• The Model Thinker
• Viral Loop
• Zero to One
• The Organized Mind
• Deep Medicine
• Creative Selection
• World War 3.0
• An Elegant Defense
• Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age
• Trade-Off
• The Intel Trinity
• The Innovator's Solution
• The Score Takes Care of Itself
• The Success Equation
• The Method Method
• The Upside of Stress
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things
• The City in History
• Sapiens
• The Checklist Manifesto
• The Curse of the Mogul
• Swimming Across
• Revolution in The Valley
• The 80/20 Principle and 92 Other Powerful Laws of Nature
• Loonshots
• Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
• High Output Management
• In the Company of Giants
• How Google Works
• Insanely Simple
• Behind the Cloud
• Becoming Steve Jobs
• Architects of the Web
• Cultural Strategy
• Amusing Ourselves to Death
• 7 Powers
• Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy: “Reading.”
• Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making: “Read this.”
• Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Lose Weight, and Stay Healthy: “Today's reading.”
• The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power: “If you want to understand the threat posed by China (and how the CCP exploits technology), order this book”
• Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980: “Latest reading.”
• Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live: “Latest reading.”
• No Rules Rules: “Latest reading.”
• The Day of the Jackal: “Great book and movie too.”
• The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind--and Changed the History of Free Speech in America: “great book.”
• Andy Grove: The Life and Times of an American Business Icon: “I am often asked by entrepreneurs for my list of the best books to read... now collate them in one place.”
• Googled: The End of the World as We Know It: “I am often asked by entrepreneurs for my list of the best books to read... now collate them in one place.”
• Go To: The Story of the Math Majors, Bridge Players, Engineers, Chess Wizards, Maverick Scientists and Iconoclasts--the Programmers Who Created the Software Revolution: “I am often asked by entrepreneurs for my list of the best books to read... now collate them in one place.”
• Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing: “I am often asked by entrepreneurs for my list of the best books to read... now collate them in one place.”
• The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture: “I am often asked by entrepreneurs for my list of the best books to read... now collate them in one place.”
• Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age: “I am often asked by entrepreneurs for my list of the best books to read... now collate them in one place.”
• The 80/20 Principle: “I am often asked by entrepreneurs for my list of the best books to read... now collate them in one place.”
• Drawing Life: Surviving the Unabomber: “I am often asked by entrepreneurs for my list of the best books to read... now collate them in one place.”
• On Intelligence: “I am often asked by entrepreneurs for my list of the best books to read... now collate them in one place.”
• Hooking Up: “SV reading list: 1/Thomas Wolfe Ch 1 Hooking Up, GoTo by Lohr, In the Company of Giants Ch 1 (Jobs), Next by Michael Lewis.”
• Next: The Future Just Happened: “SV reading list: 1/Thomas Wolfe Ch 1 Hooking Up, GoTo by Lohr, In the Company of Giants Ch 1 (Jobs), Next by Michael Lewis.”
• Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan: “For some historical context (and some comparison w the Secret Service), this book is excellent”
• The American Dream Is Not Dead: (But Populism Could Kill It): “Latest books to arrive.”
• The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect: “The two indispensable books of 2018:”
• Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology: “Discovered some new interesting books today.”
• When Genius Failed: “First four books to read in 2017.”
• A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking with Statistics and the Scientific Method: “First four books to read in 2017.”
• The Vital Question: “First four books to read in 2017.”
• Superhuman: Life at the Extremes of Our Capacity: “Finally book of 2018.”
• The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn: “Book 7 from 2017. Not for everyone but recommend for tech folks.”
• Steve Jobs: “Excited to learn that Steve Jobs: A Biography will be an excellent read.”
• Why We Need the Electoral College: “read this: Why We Need the Electoral College by Tara Ross”
• Knicks in the Nineties: Ewing, Oakley, Starks and the Teams That Almost Won It All: “Excited to read this new book”
• Think Like a Rocket Scientist: “Books for today's times.”
• Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back: “Books for today's times.”
• The Winner Within: A Life Plan for Team Players: “You don't want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one who does what you do.”
• I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59: “If you are considering joining a startup, I highly recommend reading Doug Edwards's I am Feeling Lucky, Confessions of Google Employee 58.”
• The Platform Delusion: Who Wins and Who Loses in the Age of Tech Titans: “Excited to start reading this book tomorrow.”
• The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care--and How to Fix It: “If you want to understand why health care is a mess and how to improve it (without making it worse) start by reading this book”
• Principles: “Highly recommend reading this. (Even if you have read the original PDF).”
• Superforecasting: “Eagerly anticipating this book. Excited to start reading.”
• Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco: “Love this reference. Suggested reading this book this am on stage at Techweek.”
• The Tree of Life and Prosperity: 21st Century Business Principles from the Book of Genesis: “All founders should read this book.”
• Rhinoceros and Other Plays: “Everyone should read this book.”
• Steve Jobs in Exile: The Untold Story of NeXT and the Remaking of an American Visionary: “Just purchased. Excited to read.”
• Apple: The First 50 Years: “Holiday reading.”
• The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War: “Reading today.”
• Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine: “New reading.”
• Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things: “Today's reading.”
• The Right Call: What Sports Teach Us About Work and Life: “Today's reading.”
• Runnin' Down a Dream: How to Thrive in a Career You Actually Love: “Weekend reading.”
• Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future: “Today's reading.”
• Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire: “Today's (re) reading.”