A free library offers 45 internal memos, leaked handbooks and forgotten books from the people who built Apple, Intel, Google, Netflix and Facebook. Every item can be read or borrowed at no cost, giving readers direct access to material that rarely reaches the public.
The documents span several decades. Early entries include Bill Gates's 1995 memo "The Internet Tidal Wave" and Tim Berners-Lee's 1989 proposal "Information Management," which laid groundwork for the web. Warren Buffett's letters, including his 1957 Buffett Partnership Letters and his 1972 letter to See's Candy, sit alongside Intel's 1968 convertible debentures memo from Noyce, Moore and Rock.
More recent material includes Mark Zuckerberg's 2012 Instagram emails, Steve Jobs's 2010 "Holy War with Google" and Google's leaked 2023 memo "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does Open AI." The collection also features Ilya Sutskever's 2025 deposition and the 2015 founding emails of Open AI from Musk, Altman, Sutskever and Brockman.
The library also includes books on business leadership, such as Thomas J. Watson Jr.'s 1963 "A Business and Its Beliefs," Akio Morita's 1986 "Made in Japan" and John D. Rockefeller's 1909 "Random Reminiscences of Men and Events." Together they offer a record of how major companies were built and run.
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