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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. #1 In 2007, Kleiner Perkins was approached by engineers who had named their startup after Nikola Tesla, the legendary inventor. They had partnered with a wildly successful PayPal entrepreneur who was now chairman of the board. They wanted to pitch their idea. #2 The world must replace all gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles with a fleet of zero-emissions cars, trucks, and buses...

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 The power of stories cannot be understated. They are uniquely powerful, and they can be used to connect with others and make a difference. #2 We are constantly surrounded by stories. When someone says they're going to tell us a story, we expect it to follow a familiar pattern: setup, climax, and resolution. When it doesn't, we are left dissatisfied. #3 The brain...

Get the Summary of Greg Steinmetz's American Rascal in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: American Rascal shows Gould's complex, quirky character. He was at once praised for his brilliance by Rockefeller and Vanderbilt and condemned for forever destroying American business values by Mark Twain. He lived a colorful life, trading jokes with Thomas Edison, figuring Thomas Nast's best sketches,...

Get the Summary of Steven Bartlett's Happy Sexy Millionaire in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: As an 18-year-old, black, broke, lonely, insecure, university drop-out, from a bankrupt family, I wrote in my diary that I wanted to be a 'Happy Sexy Millionaire' by the age of 25. By 25 I was a multi-millionaire having created a business worth over $300m dollars. Ironically, in achieving everything...

Get the Summary of Jack D. Schwager's Unknown Market Wizards in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Unknown Market Wizards continues in the three-decade tradition of the hugely popular Market Wizards series, interviewing exceptionally successful traders to learn how they achieved their extraordinary performance results. The twist in Unknown Market Wizards is that the featured traders are...

Get the Summary of Cathy O'Neil's “Weapons of Math Destruction” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly the decisions that affect our lives-where we go to school, whether we get a car loan, how much we pay for health insurance-are being made not by humans but by mathematical models. In theory this should lead to greater fairness: Everyone...

Get the Summary of Barbara Demick's Nothing to Envy 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Barbara Demick's Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over 15 years - a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung and the unchallenged rise to power of his son, Kim Jong-il, and the devastation of a far-ranging famine that killed one-fifth of the population. Taking us into a landscape...

Get the Summary of Victor Davis Hanson's The Dying Citizen in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Human history is full of the stories of peasants, subjects, and tribes. Yet the concept of the "citizen" is historically rare-and was among America's most valued ideals for over two centuries. But without shock treatment, warns historian Victor Davis Hanson, American citizenship as we have known...

Get the Summary of Mary L. Trump's The Reckoning in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Mary L. Trump is uniquely positioned to answer these difficult questions. She holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology specializing in trauma, has herself been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, and happens to be Donald J. Trump's only niece. In The Reckoning, she applies her unique expertise to...

Get the Summary of Scott Trench's Set for Life in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Building wealth is always possible, even while working full-time, earning a median income, and paying off debt. By layering philosophy with practical knowledge, Set for Life gives people in their twenties and thirties an action plan to conquer their financial goals early in life. With more than 140,000 copies...