Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, two of the wealthiest and most successful people in the world, both credit reading as integral to their success. Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, two of the wealthiest and most successful people in the world, both credit reading as integral to their success.
Gates, the former CEO of Microsoft, reportedly reads 50 books a year. In 2015, Zuckerberg, the current CEO of Facebook, created an online book club in which he read a book every two weeks.
Here are some of the titles the pair has recommended over the past few years.
‘Creativity, Inc.’ by Ed Catmull
Genome science can hardly be considered a topic of mainstream interest, but Gates says Mukherjee manages to capture its relevance to people’s daily lives. He seeks to answer big questions concerning our personalities and what makes us, us. “Mukherjee wrote this book for a lay audience, because he knows that the new genome technologies are at the cusp of affecting us all in profound ways,” Gates wrote.
Tech: 17 books Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg think everyone should read
