Bill Gates Is Giving A Book To All US College Graduates

Bill Gates, captured on April 19, 2018 in Berlin, Germany. Tech titans have a long history of making book recommendations. In 2015, Mark Zuckerberg launched a book club via Facebook, noting a must-read every two weeks. The year opened with Moisés Naím's The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be and closed out with David Deutsch's The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform the World; in between were titles on racism, genetics, religion, medicine, and sociology, and a smattering of science fiction novels. Jeff Bezos, owner of "bookstore killer" Amazon, had a book list on the platform in 2013 that included a variety of entrepreneur-focused books, like the iconic The Innovators Dilemma by Clayton Christensen and Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins.