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Published · transcript-backedEvan Spiegel: recommendation
26 Apr 2026 Lenny's Podcast Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan Spiegel
“I would recommend the first half because he interviews like 150 early Apple team members and the stories are just great and there's a lot of learnings in there.”
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- Evan Spiegel
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- recommendation
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- 26 Apr 2026
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- Lenny's Podcast
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…Okay. What are two or three books that you find yourself recommending most to other people? Well, you know what I just finished was The First 50 Years of Apple by David Pogue. I thought it was great. I would recommend the first half because he interviews like 150 early Apple team members and the stories are just great and there's a lot of learnings in there. So I really enjoyed that. I think ... What else have I read recently? There's a great book maybe relevant for this particular moment called The End of the World is just the Beginning, which actually touches a lot on the vulnerability of global shipping. The global economy is built on global shipping, and it sort of predicts a world where the US was going to have a much harder time securing the global waterways. And what does that mean for the way that we build things and organize ourselves as a society? That sounds quite familiar these days.…
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