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#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...
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Book Preview: #1 You've been working on your relationship, hoping that love would be enough. But you've been agonizing over whether or not to stay. Now you're ready to make the choice that's been weighing on your heart.
#2 Leaving your relationship means finally freeing yourself from the confusion and pain that comes with it. It means getting on with a new and better life. Until now,...
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Book Preview: #1 The two men were looking for a schooner that was small enough to be handled by four sailors, but strongly built as well. They wanted the ship to be cheap, since they had little funding for the ambitious venture they planned.
#2 The two men, François Raynal and Thomas Musgrave, were looking for a ship to take them on their adventure. They found the Grafton, a coal...
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Get the Summary of Warren Berger's ‘The Book of Beautiful Questions’ in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: When confronted with almost any demanding situation, the act of questioning can help guide us to smart decisions. By asking questions, we can analyze, learn, and move forward in the face of uncertainty. But "questionologist" Warren Berger says that the questions must be the right...
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Get the Summary of Jack Weatherford's Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World in the World in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade,...
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#1 The first role model your child has is you. You will be a major influence on your child, and they will look to you for guidance. In this section, I'll be looking at how the past can affect the present when it comes to your relationship with your child.
#2 If you are a parent, you can unpack and become familiar with your childhood, examine what happened to you, how you felt about...
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#1 There are not many great humor writers in the world. It is one of the most difficult and challenging of all the literary crafts. To write humor that is funny, you must first find a good joke, then re-tell it in your own words.
#2 To write humor, you must first understand what makes people laugh. There are many theories as to why people laugh, and they all provide...
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Get the Summary of Frank Slootman's Amp It Up in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman is one of the tech world's most accomplished executives in enterprise growth, having led Snowflake to the largest software IPO ever after leading ServiceNow and Data Domain to exponential growth and the public market before that. In Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising...
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#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...
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Get the Summary of Wright Thompson's Pappyland in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: As a journalist said of Pappy Van Winkle, "You could call it bourbon, or you could call it a $5,000 bottle of liquified, barrel-aged unobtanium." Julian Van Winkle, the third-generation head of his family's business, is now thought of as something like the Buddha of Bourbon - Booze Yoda, as Wright Thompson...
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Get the Summary of Christian Brose's The Kill Chain in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: As Christian Brose reveals in this urgent wake-up call, the future will be defined by artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, and other emerging technologies that are revolutionizing global industries and are now poised to overturn the model of American defense. This fascinating, if disturbing,...
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Get the Summary of Richard C. Schwartz's No Bad Parts in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Is there just one "you"? We've been taught to believe we have a single identity, and to feel fear or shame when we can't control the inner voices that don't match the ideal of who we think we should be. Yet Dr. Richard Schwartz's research now challenges this "mono-mind" theory. "All of us are born...
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#1 I keep peace and confidence down in my basement. I keep a sense of security next to my barrel of I can rest well tonight. I keep the smiles of my children on the same shelf as my hubby's sighs of relief.
#2 Food storage is about being proactive and taking steps to keep your family safe. It can save you money compared to regular groceries. Learning to follow sales and only stock...
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#1 The mood in the helicopter was upbeat, especially from Ronnie Means. He had taken a job building concrete silos before joining the Army, and he looked like he was giddy. I didn't hit it off with him until we spent five hours together on a bus.
#2 I had always known cold and snow in December, but here, the air was so thick and muggy that I struggled to take deep breaths....
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Get the Summary of Rick Reilly's So Help Me Golf in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: This is the book Rick Reilly has been writing in the back of his head since he fell in love with the game of golf at eleven years old. He unpacks and explores all of the wonderful, maddening, heart-melting, heart-breaking, cool, and captivating things about golf that make the game so utterly addictive....
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Get the Summary of Cade Metz's Genius Makers in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
Original book introduction: Long dismissed as a technology of the distant future, artificial intelligence was a project consigned to the fringes of the scientific community. Then two researchers changed everything. One was a sixty-four-year-old computer science professor who didn't drive and didn't fly because he could no longer sit...
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#1 Financial education allows you to make more money with less risk, and it also allows you to pay less in taxes. However, you can't follow traditional financial advice or invest in traditional investments.
#2 In 2007, the world woke up to the word subprime. These were mortgages given to people with poor credit who could not afford to pay them back. In 2008, the Lehman...
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Get the Summary of Robert T. Kiyosaki's Rich Dad Poor Dad For Teens in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: You're never too young to learn the language of money... and the lessons that rich dad taught Robert. Like it or not, money is a part of our everyday lives and the more we understand it, the better the chance that we can learn to have our money work hard for us - instead of working hard...
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#1 I lived in Jerusalem for several months in the early 1990s, doing research in the private libraries of some of the city's oldest families. I found a worldly man with a broad education who was deeply interested in comparative religion.
#2 Yusuf Diya was an Ottoman government official who spent much of his career training to be a diplomat. He was also elected as the...
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Get the Summary of Nina Burleigh's Mirage in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Mirage" by Nina Burleigh recounts Napoleon Bonaparte's secretive 1798 expedition to Egypt, involving a fleet of 300 ships, 34,000 troops, 16,000 sailors, and 151 scholars and artists. The mission aimed to undermine British trade routes and expand French influence. The scholars, including prominent figures like Gaspard Monge and Claude-Louis...
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