High Output Management

This book by Andy Grove has been genuinely recommended 3 times on Tim Ferriss. The people who vouched for it on air: Daniel Ek, Harley Finkelstein, Luis von Ahn. It comes up in conversations about meditation & mindfulness, motivation & discipline, productivity & performance. The earliest recommendation we indexed is from Dec 2020 and the most recent from Jul 2022. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

• “one book that i really liked and we make all managers read it at duolingo is it's an oldie but a really good one is high output management by andy grove”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “one book that i really liked and we make all managers read it at duolingo... it's an oldie but a really good one”
  Luis von Ahn · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jul 202200:47:01

  Said during "Luis von Ahn, Co-Founder of Duolingo, How to Be (Truly) Mission-Driven, 10x Growth, and More". The episode features Luis von Ahn: Co-founder and CEO of Duolingo, pioneer of crowdsourcing, co-inventor of CAPTCHA/reCAPTCHA, MacArthur Fellow, and consulting professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Duolingo's CEO on monetizing free education, metric-based teams, going public, catching cheaters, and expanding beyond languages.

• “one of the books that was suggested to me early on in my shopify journey was high output management which is the andy grove book”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “i found high up and management to be by far one of the greatest books”
  Harley Finkelstein · The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 202000:09:51

  Said during "Harley Finkelstein, Strategies from Shopify, the Future of Retail, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show". The episode features Harley Finkelstein: Entrepreneur, lawyer, and Chief Operating Officer of Shopify, which he joined around 2010. He founded his first company at 17 while a student at McGill and is an advisor to Felicis Ventures. Shopify COO Harley Finkelstein on building the entrepreneurship company, lessons from law school, the Build-A-Business competition, and the accelerated future of retail.

• “early on as a manager there's high output management by andy grow is fantastic”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “high output management by andy grow is fantastic”
  Daniel Ek · The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 202001:02:40

  Said during "Daniel Ek, CEO of Spotify, Habits, Systems and Mental Models for Performance | The Tim Ferriss Show". The episode features Daniel Ek: Daniel Ek is the Swedish founder, CEO, and chairman of Spotify, the world's most popular audio streaming service. At the time of recording it had roughly 320 million users including about 144 million subscribers across 92 markets. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek shares the habits, mental models, and leadership systems behind his focus, energy, and decision-making.