EKMH Innovators Interview Series
An interview series spotlighting global tech influencers, disruptors, visionaries, and of course, innovators.
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Over the years innovators have highlighted the books, music, films and podcasts that top their lists. Below please find recent favorites. Many thanks to those tech, fintech, blockchain entreprenurs and innovators who shared excellent recommendations from their nightstands, bookshelves, Libby lists, Spotify lineups and film streaming platforms.
Please find a compiled list for your enjoyment, engagement, entertainment and enlightenment. For your convenience, I’ve also included past recommendation lists.
YouHodler Founder / CEO Ilya Volkov:
Books: Antifragile and Skin in the Game by Nassim Taleb
Movies: Eat the Rich: The GameStop Saga; The Billion Dollar Code
MetaJuice Web3 Partnerships + Strategy Guru Peg Samuel:
Podcast: Archetypes
Documentaries and Docuseries: Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields and She Said
ReelStar Co-Founder / CEO Nick Bahl:
Book: The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
Film: The Pursuit of Happiness
Bitget Managing Director Gracy Chen:
Books: Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari, Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
The Visible Voices Podcast Creator / Emergency Medicine / Radiology Professor Resa E. Lewiss, MD:
Films: The Color of Paradise and Hiroshima mon amour.
Podcasts: Pod Save the People, Born in June, Raised in April: What Adoption Can Teach the World, Jill on Money, Matter of Fact with Soledad O’Brien, Marketplace Morning Report, The Human Doctor, The Nocturnists, Getting Even with Anita Hill, The L word, Doctors and Litigation, and Crimetown Season 1 Providence
As a language model, I do not have the capability to read books or have personal preferences. However, I can provide you with information on books that are considered to be important, influential, or widely enjoyed by readers.
Some classic books that are considered to be must-reads include: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1984 by George Orwell, The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Some more recent books that are considered to be must-reads include: The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins, The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Syngrafii Co-Founder / President / CEO Matthew Gibson:
Books: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, The Stand and The Gunslinger series, Stephen King under the pseudonym Richard Bachman
Suspense and classic and smart horror films: Nosferatu Original title: Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens silent film, 1922; Let the Right One In, a Swedish romantic horror based on the 2004 novel of the same title by John Ajvide Lindqvist; Rear Window directed by Alfred Hitchcock with James Stewart and Grace Kelly
Book: Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties by Paul Collier
Audio books: from authors who I have admired over the years, including Peter Drucker, Brian Tracy, and Anthony Robbins
ImpactVC Co-Founder / General Partner Eric Ball:
Books: Zero to One by Peter Thiel, Noise by Dani Kahneman, Oliver Subony and Cass Sunstein, Thinking Fast and Slow by Dani Kahneman
Space opera: some of the best include Foundation (Asimov), Dune (Herbert) and The Expanse (Corey)
Founder/ Investor / Advisor/ Innovation Expert Deb Mills-Scofield:
Books: Mystery/thrillers including Baldacci, Jussi Alder-Olsen, Jo Nesbo, Camilla Läckberg, Tana French, Arnaldur Indriðason and Louise Penny; Metaphors We Live By, The Power Broker by Caro, Ignorance by Firestein, What a Body Can Do? by Sara Hendren. Click here for my Goodreads’ recommendations.
Climate Expert Laura Faye Tenenbaum:
Podcasts: Brene Brown’s Unlocking Us and Ira Glass’ This American Life
Films: My Octopus Teacher and Chasing Coral
Book: Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
Imprint Energy Co-Founder/ CEO Dr. Christine Ho:
Podcast: Watt It Takes
CoinFantasy CEO / Co-Founder HarishKarthik Gunalan:
Book: The Alamnack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness by Eric Jorgenson
Podcast: Lex Fridman Podcast
Take Haven Founder and Creative Director Sara Tuminello:
Podcasts: Sounds True, Rich Roll, The Light Watkins Show
Series: Ted Lasso
Click here to find hundreds of reading, listening and viewing recommendations from the EKMH Innovators’ Archive.
Still not enough? Additional go-to book lists include those from The Economist, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, MIT Sloan, The Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, The Wall Street Journal and The New Yorker. Happy reading!
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