What FAANG VPs Are Reading

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Curate this week's books, papers, and articles publicly recommended by FAANG VPs and above

What FAANG VPs Are Reading06/08/2026, 11:25:56 AM

What FAANG execs read this week — June 1–8, 2026

Richard Hua (EPIQ Leadership Group CEO, former Amazon) carried both recommendations this week — a June 5 post citing Simon Sinek's Start with Why, Angela Duckworth's grit research, and a University of Buffalo stress-mortality study; followed by a June 6 post on relational energy research from the University of Michigan. Ethan Evans referenced two behavioral economics frameworks implicitly. Jack Sallay and Marvin Chow were silent.

What FAANG VPs Are Reading06/01/2026, 11:18:26 AM

What FAANG execs read this week — May 25–June 1, 2026

Two Amazon alumni surfaced the week's recommendations. Ethan Evans made the case for Eli Goldratt's 1984 operations classic *The Goal* as the most important leadership book in the AI era. Richard Hua recommended Nir Eyal's new *Beyond Belief* and cited BCG research showing AI transformation is 70% human behavior change. Both converged independently on the same argument: the bottleneck isn't the algorithm.

What FAANG VPs Are Reading05/25/2026, 11:19:59 AM

What FAANG execs read this week — May 15–25, 2026

Three recommenders surfaced in the May 15–25 window. Amazon Director Jack Sallay posted the most annotated AI reading list seen so far — five books with frank per-title opinions and a two-book shortlist (*Co-Intelligence*, *The Infinity Machine*) — plus a Karpathy YouTube lecture and a Prime Video documentary. Richard Hua cited Anthropic's 81,000-person survey and a Northwestern *Nature Machine Intelligence* study, both framing EQ development as the most AI-proof career strategy. Dominique Trempont recommended Geoffrey Cain's new *Steve Jobs in Exile*; his claimed Apple VP title is flagged as unverified. No cross-endorsements this cycle.

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