Venture Capitalist, Author
Scott Kupor is the managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, one of Silicon Valley's most prominent venture capital firms. His book Secrets of Sand Hill Road demystifies how venture capital works for founders and investors.
by Scott Kupor
Kupor, manageing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, pulls back the curtain on how venture firms actually raise, invest, and exit, explaining LPs, fund economics, and the mechanics of term sheets from the VC's own vantage point. He argues that founders who understand VC incentives (fund lifecycles, reserves, power-law returns) negotiate better deals and pick better partners, and he walks through governance, down rounds, and IPO/M&A outcomes in plain language.
The books Scott Kupor references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Eric Ries
Ries argues most startups fail by building products nobody wants. The solution: treat your business as an experiment, measure validated learning, and pivot before you run out of cash.
by Ben Horowitz
Horowitz shares hard-won lessons from running a startup through near-death crises. There is no formula, leadership means making impossible decisions when there are no good options.
by Peter Thiel
Thiel argues that true innovation means creating something entirely new, not copying what exists. Competition is for losers, monopoly through unique value is how lasting companies are built.
by Gino Wickman
Wickman presents the Entrepreneurial Operating System, a framework for running a business with clarity and discipline. It boils leadership down to six key components: vision, people, data, issues, process, and traction.
Who Scott draws from, and who draws from Scott — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.