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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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#1 I'd like to thank my publisher, Hay House, who have supported me for many years through my development as an author and have always enabled me to write about the subjects I've wanted to. I also thank all the people who sent me stories of their own uses of visualization.
#2 The mind impacts the body. Thoughts, feelings, ideas, imagination, beliefs, and expectations...
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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 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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Book Preview: #1 The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle believed that the earth was a round sphere rather than a flat plate. He knew that eclipses of the moon were caused by the earth coming between the sun and the moon, and that the North Star appeared lower in the sky when viewed in the south than it did in more northerly regions.
#2 Aristotle believed the earth was the center...
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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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#1 Helen was having an identity crisis. She had always wanted to be an artist, but after college, she had no clear path forward. She nannied while waiting for her life to start, but it never did.
#2 Identity capital is our collection of personal assets. It is the repertoire of individual resources that we assemble over time. These are the investments we make in ourselves,...
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Get the Summary of Andy Greenberg's Tracers in the Dark in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Tracers in the Dark is a story of crime and pursuit unlike any other. With unprecedented access to the major players in federal law enforcement and private industry, veteran cybersecurity reporter Andy Greenberg tells an astonishing saga of criminal empires built and destroyed. He introduces an...
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Get the Summary of Toby Ord's The Precipice in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: If all goes well, human history is just beginning. Our species could survive for billions of years-enough time to end disease, poverty, and injustice, and to flourish in ways unimaginable today. But this vast future is at risk. With the advent of nuclear weapons, humanity entered a new age, where we face existential...
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#1 The history of sightings of strange objects in Antipodean skies can be traced back to the 19th century, when European settlers reported seeing fuzzy hovering white orbs of light tracking them as they moved through outback country.
#2 I was a teenager living in New Zealand when the Kaikoura sighting occurred. I was initially intrigued then disappointed by the dramatic sighting,...
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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 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 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 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,...
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Get the Summary of Edward Snowden's Permanent Record in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented...
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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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#1 I am blessed among men. I was encouraged by my daughter, Maggie, and my wife, Ellen, while writing this book.
#2 My father, Malachy McCourt, was born in Toome, County Antrim. He grew up wild, in trouble with the English, or the Irish, or both. He fought with the Old IRA and for some desperate act he wound up a fugitive with a price on his head. When I was a child,...
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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...
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#1 The first time I tried to build the iPhone was in 1989, when I founded General Magic with two other Apple employees. We designed a beautiful touchscreen mobile computer that combined a cell phone and fax machine.
#2 There is a common assumption that if you find the right job when you're young, you can guarantee some level of success. But that's not always the case....
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Get the Summary of Mike Michalowicz's Clockwork in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: If you're like most entrepreneurs, you started your company so you could be your own boss, make the money you deserve, and live life on your own terms. In reality, you're bogged down in the daily grind, constantly putting out fires, answering an endless stream of questions, and continually hunting for cash.
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