How to Make a Few Billion Dollars

Business and finance book offering strategies and mindsets behind building very large fortunes, typically through high‑growth companies and deals. Relevant to ambitious startup founders interested in scaling, capital, and thinking at very large outcome levels.

The 5 Types of Wealth

2025 release exploring holistic wealth building beyond financial success. Amazon Editors’ Pick with 4.8/5 stars, relevant for founders balancing multiple life dimensions. Focuses on comprehensive prosperity strategies.

Buy Then Build: How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game

A practical guide to “acquisition entrepreneurship,” arguing that founders can often create more value by buying and growing existing small businesses instead of starting from scratch. Covers sourcing deals, financing, due diligence, and operating acquired companies—highly relevant for startup-minded founders considering alternative paths to ownership.

The Profit Zone

A strategy book focused on understanding where and how a business truly makes money, emphasizing profit models over pure revenue growth—important reading for startup founders refining business models and unit economics.

The Three Rules

The Three Rules is a business strategy book that distills patterns from high-performing companies into three core rules for superior performance, offering startup founders evidence-based guidance on how to make strategic decisions that drive sustainable growth.

Are You Creating Wealth with Your Business or Just Making Money?: Wealth Building Exit Strategies and Succession Planning

Theodore P. Burbank teaches founders tactics to transition from revenue growth to building scalable wealth via exit strategies and succession planning. Key metrics include enterprise value multiples and owner independence scores for team scaling. Unlike Blitzscaling's speed focus, it prioritizes sustainable value creation for acquisition exits.