Sophia Amoruso

When I went to raise venture capital there’s one called – I think it’s something like How to be Smarter than your Venture Capitalist. Like literally something like that and I liked that. And I was like, you know, I've raised $70 million so I guess I figured that out.

So the book that I've gifted most to other people is The Richest Man in Babylon, which I talk about in Girl Boss. And it was written like 100 years ago and it’s written as though it was written in biblical times or something ... And it’s something that anyone can read and understand. It’s like a one hour or two hour read, it’s the tiniest little book. And 100 years later all the advice still holds up, which I find really great.

And there was a book called no Man’s Land that I thought was really good. It was about just that period of time where you’re too small to be big and you’re too big to be small. And most people hire middle management but middle management have never seen the top. So then you hire more senior management. And I've done that and even that’s challenging. So I mean, there’s no silver bullet but reading other people – reading about other peoples’ experiences of growing and struggling with scaling a business always makes you feel better.