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Back to blog<br>The ultimate reading list for founders<br>July 27, 2026Correctify Team
Every great company begins with a way of seeing the world differently. Behind the biggest breakthroughs are years of accumulated ideas, from philosophy and science to business and technology. This collection gathers some of the most valuable thinking from founders, investors, and thinkers who have helped shape how we build, create, and solve problems.
Articles
Founder Mindset, Mental Models & Big Ideas
The days are long but the decades are short
Willingness to look stupid
Staring into the abyss as a core life skill
Impact, agency, and taste
The Most Precious Resource is Agency
On agency
The top idea in your mind
How to think for yourself
The four quadrants of conformism
The anatomy of determination
Crony Beliefs
The tyranny of ideas
Some things I believe by Nat Friedman
Some examples of people quickly accomplishing ambitious things together
It's a torturous chaos until it isn't
Excuse me, is there a problem?
Searching for outliers
The Illusion of Knowledge
In Praise of Idleness
Startups are an act of desperation
Put Something Back
The Math of Why You Can't Focus at Work
The Map Is Not the Territory
What is First Principles Thinking?
Second-Order Thinking: What Smart People Use to Outperform
Theory of Constraints 101
Where Do Prices Come From?
I, Pencil
Fundraising, Metrics & Finance
16 Startup Metrics
Startup Metrics for Pirates
Fundraising Advice to Avoid
How Funding Rounds Differ
The Burn Multiple
All Revenue is Not Created Equal: The Keys to the 10X Revenue Club
Everything we measure at Equals
Preparing a board deck
Sequoia Capital Pitch Deck Template
Good VCs, bad VCs
Strategy, Competition & Growth
The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan
Tesla Master Plan, Part Deux
Tesla Master Plan Part 3
The Pmarca Guide to Startups
The idea maze
Defensibility & Competition
Competition Is for Losers
How startups beat incumbents
Two Powerful Mental Models: Network Effects and Critical Mass
The Case for the Fat Startup
Startup = Growth
How to start a startup
The Dumb Idea Paradox: Why great ideas often start out by sounding dumb
Five ways to build a $100 million business
1000 true fans
No Science, No Startups: The Innovation Engine We're Switching Off
Product & Product-Market Fit
Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager
Know your customers' "Job to Be Done"
We Don't Sell Saddles Here
Your target market isn't demographic
Willingness-to-pay: Creating permanent competitive advantage for the right reasons
If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good
Rarely say yes to feature requests
The Law of Shitty Clickthroughs
Does Slow Growth Equal Slow Death?
Airtable's Path to Product-Market Fit - Lessons for Building Horizontal Products
How Superhuman Built an Engine to Find Product Market Fit
How we launch at Supabase
Leadership & Management
Peacetime CEO/Wartime CEO
The second job of a startup CEO
Founder mode
How To Be Successful
Management Time: Who's Got the Monkey?
Stubborn Visionaries & Pigheaded Fools
Do things that don't scale
There are no small changes
Be Impatient
Principal–agent problem
Two-factor theory
Team, Culture & Communication
The 37signals Guide to Internal Communication
The 37signals Guide to Making Decisions
Group Chat: The Best Way to Totally Stress Out Your Team
How we make decisions at Coinbase
Netflix Culture
The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to "The Office"
On Nonviolent Communication
I can tolerate anything except the outgroup
Taming the Mammoth: Why You Should Stop Caring What Other People Think
Collaboration sucks
Hiring, Equity & People Ops
How to hire
What's going on here, with this human?
Omens of exceptional talent
Employee Equity
A No B.S. Guide to Startup Stock Option Grants
Carta Job offer letter
Benefits at Startups
Onboarding at Startups
Letter of Resignation
Engineering & Technical Leadership
The Startup CTO's Handbook
#define CTO
#define CTO OpenAI
What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?
Company Case Studies, Playbooks & Reflections
Spotify Scaling
Reflections on OpenAI
Reflections on Palantir
What I Miss About Working at Stripe
The Story of Shazam: The Startup Days
How Apple is organized for innovation
Every Jeff Bezos' Letter to Shareholders Since 1997
An "Owner's Manual" for Google's Shareholders
A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to 2100
Uncanny Valley
Lifehacks
50 things we’ve learned about building successful products
32 things we’ve learned about building a startup that scales
Blogs
Paul Graham Essays
Sebastian Bensusan Blog
Steve Blank Blog
Tomasz Tunguz Blog
Patrick Collison Blog
Elad Gil Blog
Sam Altman Blog
Des Traynor Blog
Marc Randolph Blog
Steve Jobs...