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I read over 111 business biographies and these 11 will make you rich.

I grew up as a 16 year old lost, broken, drug addict.

And today I fly around on my own private jet and I have a fleet of supercars and have a beautiful family.

And none of that would happen if I didn't read books.

When kids come up to me in my McLaren or my Ferrari and they ask me what do you do?

I tell them I read books, specifically biographies, because that's where I'm going to learn from people that have been there before, that have built some of the most impressive companies in the world and understand that I'm not alone and I'm normal.

Like, I'm just like them in many ways, maybe at different errors in time, but

And that's why, you know, I went through all 111 biographies that I've ever read and I've distilled it down into the 11 that I think are the best.

The ones that are really going to resonate with you where you're at, starting off as an entrepreneur, that'll really inspire you to think bigger, to feel normal and hopefully take action.

So the first book is open by Andre Agassi.

It's written so well, like the writing style.

And I know what you're thinking, he's a tennis player.

Let me tell you, this book is about performance and mindset and growth.

Most business problems are personal problems.

This book taught me more about how to succeed in business than pretty much every other one on the list.

The ghostwriter who worked with him also wrote another book on this list that I think is the best biography ever written in the history of man.

Once I tell you what that one is later in this video, be sure to come back and read this one because you will not be able to put it down.

What I loved about it is it talks about the importance of honesty and authenticity in both sports and in life.

Like being yourself, which a lot of people, they're always wearing masks, not for the most part who they really are.

Here's a guy that was groomed from birth to become a world class champion from his dad.

He's a bit demanding of a man and he struggled on court, off court, he had won eight grand slams.

I mean, he is the most decorated tennis player in the history.

So being able to get behind the scenes and understand the impact from his family, his mentors, his coaches, and

personal professional development and how all that came together for him to show how he embraced the change, the adaptability, had to learn in order to succeed.

You want to read a book that's all about pursuing excellence and never giving up on your goals?

My dad, for a long time, didn't believe in me.

I would have loved somebody that saw my potential and pushed me to be the best, but

But what happened is that even in that scenario, I ended up wanting to step up and prove my dad that I can do it.

You know, my story is a little different where I grew up in because I got in so much trouble as a kid.

If I was just sober, he would have been happy.

He didn't really believe I would do anything with my life.

So even though it was the opposite, it was kind of his way of pushing me.

And here's what I've learned from that experience that might help you is that either way can work.

But the cool part is, is nobody else has to change for you to win.

Number two is Losing My Virginity by Richard Branson.

The biography, the original one I read a long time ago and I reread this one recently.

For me, Richard Branson is kind of the guy.

He's the billionaire every other billionaire wants to be like.

I had the privilege of spending a week with him in Verbier, Switzerland.

And he truly is somebody that integrates both work and life in a way that's playful, fun and super creative.

In this book, you're going to learn his crazy stories about how he embraced risk taking and honestly became an entrepreneur at the age of 16 years old.

Virgin is one of the top brands in the world and a company culture rather than just making profits.

Turns out if you do that, make more profit and then really disrupt traditional industries by challenging the status quo.

Every business has been doing things that way.

When you take a fresh perspective and you look at it and you say, why don't we try this?

This is what you're going to learn in this book, is how to prioritize innovation and customer satisfaction.

At the end of the day, customer decides if they're going to spend money and if you can find innovative ways to be competitive, that's where the opportunity lies.

He started his first business, a magazine, at 16 years old and it was called Student Always had a passion for creating content and publishing and creating art, essentially.

And that's why he went from that to the record company to all the other companies.

Virgin has over 400 businesses under the Virgin Group of businesses with two CEOs.

You want to talk about scale, read the book.

Number three is the Hard Things About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz.

What I love about Ben, I'm a tech guy, software guy.

I mean, what's crazy is I was reading his blog for almost a decade before he ever wrote the book.

And what's neat is he starts every blog post with a rap Lear.

If you saw a picture of Ben Horowitz, you would laugh because this guy does not look like a rap band.

In his book, he goes through some crazy stories.

You gotta understand, sometimes we think we're having a bad day until you read a book like this and you realize that can't be real.

Somebody has to create a movie around the stories in this book.

And what I love is that he just teaches through these crazy stories.

Leadership and what's required to make tough decisions when you're facing, essentially headwinds straight on.

You know, how to embrace uncertainty and be prepared to pivot when necessary.

When I was building my company sphere, there was a point where I was like, I really need to choose.

I had three viable businesses or business units, and

I had to make the uncomfortable decision to shut one down, to essentially double down on the other two, because doing all three at our size at that time wasn't the right move.

I got inspired by this book a couple years ago.

My company, unfortunately had to essentially transition over a third of the staff, which is a crazy cultural reset.

Man, you just feel like the worst person in the world.

But having read Ben's book, I don't love what I got to do right now.

But it is the right decision to continue playing the game, being in the game, to finally win.

See, if you understood how many people you admire in business that the reason why you know who they are, because they didn't give up, it would give you so much more hope for the future and staying power.

That is actually the reason why most people win, is because they just have more grit.

Number four is Trailblazer, the Marc Benioff biography.

I would actually stop doing what I'm doing to go take A job working for one of them is Steve Jobs and the other one is Marc Benioff.

He is the not only the founder of Salesforce.com, which a lot of big companies use and many other platforms, but

he's also the guy that set SaaS in motion.

When people hear software as a service of the term SaaS, it's like a technical term.

Prior to Salesforce.com, most companies installed software on their server in a data center.

They did not host it in what we call the cloud and pay monthly to have logins.

Like every software product you pay subscription every month for.

You should thank this guy for because he pioneered that whole movement that essentially allowed me to build a career.

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