Biographies About
Important Industry Leaders

Discover the guiding philosophies, operating principles, personal struggles, and success secrets
of today’s top CEOs and history’s most influential business tycoons.

This audiobook explores the lives of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. Pulitzer came to America as a nearly penniless immigrant, while Randolph Hearst inherited his fortune from his father. Listen to learn more about these men....

Founder of The Boston Beer Company, brewer of Samuel Adams Boston Lager, and a key catalyst of the American craft beer revolution, Jim Koch offers his unique perspective when it comes to business, beer, and turning your passion into a successful company or career....

Insane Mode started off as a feature on the dual-motor Tesla Model S, which gave the car Ferrari-like acceleration, but it's also the perfect description of the operating style of a company that has sworn it won't rest until every car on the road is electric....

For the larger-than-life personalities now staking their fortunes on the development of rocket ships, the new race to explore space could be a dead end, a lucrative opportunity - or the key to humanity's salvation....

Microsoft's CEO tells the inside story of the company's continuing transformation, tracing his own personal journey from a childhood in India to leading the most significant technological changes....

Touted as the Steve Jobs of China, Jack Ma and his story has captivated his countrymen and the rest of the world. From his humble beginnings as a teacher, he has founded the Alibaba Group, one of the world's largest ecommerce businesses, and has established himself....

Drawing on access with several Apple insiders, Leander Kahney tells the inspiring story of how one man attempted to replace someone irreplaceable and - through strong, humane leadership, supply-chain savvy, and a commitment to his values - succeeded more than anyone had thought possible....

By his early 30s, Paul Allen was a world-famous billionaire. And that was just the beginning....

If you had the resources to accomplish something great in the world, what would you do? Legendary investor Warren Buffett posed this challenge to his son in 2006....

Bill Gates is most commonly known as the founder of Microsoft and the richest man on the planet for almost two decades. We will, instead, look at the man beneath the public persona of mistaken assumptions and biased opinions to reveal what makes the man tick....

Built from Scratch is the story of how two incredibly determined and creative people built a business from nothing to 761 stores and $30 billion in sales in a mere 20 years....

The Scottish-born son of a failed weaver and a mother who supported the family by binding shoes, Andrew Carnegie was the embodiment of the American dream....

Winner of the National Book Award and now considered a classic, The House of Morgan is the most ambitious history ever written about an American banking dynasty....

A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism. Founder of a dynasty, builder of the original Grand Central, creator of an impossibly vast fortune, Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt is an American icon....

This is the remarkable behind-the-scenes story of the creation and growth of Airbnb, the online lodging platform....

There have been many books - on a large and small scale - about Steve Jobs, one of the most famous CEOs in history. But this book is different from all the others....

As Alexis Ohanian learned when he helped to co-found the immensely popular reddit.com, the internet is the most powerful and democratic tool for disseminating information in human history....

In Dirt to Soil, Gabe Brown tells the story of his ranch's amazing journey and offers a wealth of innovative solutions to our most pressing and complex contemporary agricultural challenge - restoring the soil....

Christopher Leonard’s Kochland uses the extraordinary account of how the biggest private company in the world grew to be that big to tell the story of modern corporate America....

In Excellence Wins, co-founder of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company Horst Schulze shares the visionary and disruptive principles that have produced immense global successes over the course of his still prolific 50-year career....