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Recent Coverage (not frequently updated):
Apoorva Mehta’s 20 Failed Start ups Before Instacart - LA Times
How Instacart Hacked Into YC - TechCrunch
Instacart Handling of Covid - The Information
Instacart To Hire Quarter Million People - TechCrunch
Instacart after Amazon bought Whole Foods - Forbes
Apoorva Mehta’s Departure from Instacart - TechCrunch
Instacart Launches EBT Snap To Help With Food Insecurity - TechCrunch
Instacart’s 10 year Journey - Twitter
Podcasts & Videos (not frequently updated):
How I Built This - NPR
YC Start up School Talk - YouTube
Lessons from Jobs & Bezos That Apoorva Mehta Learned - CNBC
Books I have enjoyed (last updated 2016):
A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Brief History of Time
How We Got to Now - Presents how inventions are essentially networks of other ideas. Inventors use the metaphors, technologies and ideas of their time to come up with new ideas
The Power of Habit - Normally not a fan of self-help books but I found this to be particularly impressive. It outlines clear ways to identify and change undesirable habits as well create new ones. Shows how organizations like AA and people like Michael Phelps already use these techniques. Quick read.
Unbroken - The perseverance and mental strength displayed by the Louise Zamperini is inspiring.
On Intelligence
Man's Search for Meaning - The book shares how people who found meaning in their lives survived living in the concentration camps during the holocaust while others didn't. Difficult but inspiring read.
Competitive Strategy - Most of the stuff in this book is now taken for granted but it was ground breaking at the time the book was written.
Outsiders - Mandatory reading for any CEO & investor. Shows how CEOs should be benchmarked and shares the commonalities between some of the greatest performers.
Capital in the Twenty First Century
Made in America
To Conquer the Air
Hard Landings
Antifragile
The Everything Store
Buffett - The Making of an American Capitalist
Wool (Short story)
Predictably Irrational
Thinking Fast & Slow
Steve Jobs
Innovator's Dilemma