The Venture Mindset
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The Venture Mindset
| Full title | The Venture Mindset: How to Make Smarter Bets and Achieve Extraordinary Growth |
|---|---|
| Author | Ilya Strebulaev and Alex Dang |
| Published | 2024 |
| Pages | 368 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Stanford’s Ilya Strebulaev and Alex Dang distil their venture-capital research — the largest academic dataset on VC decision-making — into decision rules: home runs matter and strikeouts don’t, bet on the jockey, agree to disagree, double down or quit. |
Where I heard about it
- Replies to @WillManidis — named in the replies to his question “what is the single best book you can read that will explain an entire industry?” — the industry here being venture itself — June 2025. Full list: what is the single best book… (tweet).
Connections
- what is the single best book… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- Venture Capital — the industry the book is about, and Kyle’s own.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.