I’m trying to be helpful and listing some of the best business essays recommended by others, sort them into categories and link to them.
Inspired by Patrick Oshaughnessy’s tweet. What’s the best article on business that you’ve read this year (or ever)?
Jeff Bezos / Amazon
- Statement by Jeff Bezos to the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary
- Jeff Bezos 1997 Shareholder Letter
- Jeff Bezos 2016 Shareholder Letter
- Jeff Bezos 2018 Shareholder Letter
- The making of Amazon Prime, the internet’s most successful and devastating membership program
Strategy / Leadership / Improvement
- The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs
- What is Strategy? by Michael Porter
- Linear Thinking in a Nonlinear World
- Laws of Tech: Commoditize Your Complement
- Strategy Letter V
- Fiat’s Extreme Makeover
- Invisible asymptotes
- How to Become Insanely Well-Connected
- Why ambitious people have (unrelated) hobbies
- Practical Thought about Practical Thought?
Investing / Business Breakdowns
- Public to Private Equity in the United States: A Long-Term Look A Long-Term Look
- Measuring the Moat
- Betting on Things That Never Change
- The Psychology of Money
- Buffett Partnership Letters 1957 to 1970
- Value Investing Is Short Tech Disruption
- When The Magic Happens
- Investing in the Unknown and Unknowable
Starting a Business / Product
- The First 15 Seconds: How do you build a product that engages a user quickly enough to engage them over time?
- How Superhuman Built an Engine to Find Product/Market Fit
- Letter to a friend who may start a new investment platform
- 7 Questions to Ask Before You Start a Company (or anything new)
- The Four Growth Frameworks You Need to Build a $100M Product
- Idea to Paying Customers in 7 Weeks: How We Did It
- Growth Marketing Guide
Software and Platforms
- Shopify and the Power of Platforms
- The Metaverse of Health
- The Epic Games Primer
- The Digital Future of Tabletop Games
- Why Software Is Eating The World
Misc
- Nikola: How to Parlay An Ocean of Lies Into a Partnership With the Largest Auto OEM in America
- The Bank Job
- Tencent’s Dreams
- We Can Protect the Economy From Pandemics. Why Didn’t We?
- Finding Power (behind paywall though)
- Action Produces Information
- Obliquity
- Making Uncommon Knowledge Common
- The Three Sides of Risk
- Alex Sacerdote of Whale Rock Capital
- The Chinese Businessman Paradox
- The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to “The Office”
- Financier Who Amassed Insurance Firms Diverted $2 Billion Into His Private Empire
- Trying Too Hard by Dean Williams
- The Capitalist’s Dilemma
- In Defense of the IPO, and How to Improve It
- Fingers of Instability
