I spent an hour or so selectively reading this book. If you're doing a software startup, it's not that valuable reading. The essential premise is that there a

I spent an hour or so selectively reading this book. If you're doing a software startup, it's not that valuable reading. The essential premise is that there are a lot of "entrepreneurs" who start businesses like restaurants and repair garages and fail. They're self-selecting to a certain extent--these "entrepreneurs" are more likely to have smoked marijuana, more likely to have lost their job, tend not to deal well with having a boss, etc. The author even explicitly says something along the lines of "if a guy in his thirties quits his job at Microsoft to start a software startup, there is a substantial chance he will create significant wealth for society and therefore we should encourage this". I guess you could read it if you're doing a software startup as a morale boost. If you want to start a different kind of company and you haven't chosen an industry yet, this book could give you a good idea of what industry to pick. (Software isn't the only fertile one.)