Reviews and Comments

Outsiders of the tech/startup world have a skewed view of VCs.

VCs are villains for the media. Some entrepreneurs view them as saviors. Many young folks want to become VCs to make a dent or “change the world.”

When I took a plunge into startups a decade ago, I wore all the above lenses to view the VCs. But the truth is somewhere in the middle.

This book does an excellent job of compiling the history of VCs. Doesn’t valorize or villainize or victimize VCs. It paints a good picture of what VCs do and why they do it. It also rightfully criticizes the lack of diversity and other follies. It also contains some damn good company founding stories.

Highly recommend it for business history enthusiasts.

A crisp intro to the history of cryptocurrency from the lens of Coinbase. Of course, many of stories are now outdated given the pace of innovation in web3. But nevertheless a decent book to listen and finish in four hours.

Any book that states it wants the reader to develop intuition about a topic is always exciting. This book delivers it really well on that promise. It demystifies “finance” and makes the reader connect well. It gives plenty of examples in making things easy to understand on topics like cash flow, valuation, various ratios. Highly recommend for people who wants to know what your finance team does or what keeps your CFO busy.

I understand why people hype this book up. It’s not a bad book though, but not my type.

This is funny, bizarre and a cute little book for kids. I learnt a lot about the weirdo world of English spelling and it’s quirkiness from this short book ☺️