Christian Holland
About me
I'm a founder currently splitting my time between SF and London while building Pimlico.
Previously I was a medical doctor, VC and Chief of Staff at a defense prime.
Questions
Why are there no specialist company launchers?
Favourite books
These are some of the books I've enjoyed the most, in no particular order.
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson — Robert Caro
- The Beginning of Infinity — David Deutsch
- I Am a Strange Loop — Douglas Hofstadter
- Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel — Rebecca Goldstein
- Now It Can Be Told — Leslie Groves
- Barbarians at the Gate — Bryan Burrough & John Helyar
- John D, the Founding Father of the Rockefellers — David Freeman Hawke
- Incerto — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The Sovereign Individual — James Dale Davidson & William Rees-Mogg
- Lest Darkness Fall — L. Sprague de Camp
- Efficiently Inefficient — Lasse Heje Pedersen
- The Master and His Emissary — Iain McGilchrist
- 40 Classic Crude Oil Trades — Owain Johnson
- The Iliad — Homer
- The Aeneid — Virgil
- Napoleon the Great — Andrew Roberts
- Jeeves and Wooster — P.G. Wodehouse
- Active Inference — Thomas Parr, Giovanni Pezzulo & Karl Friston
- The Three-Body Problem — Liu Cixin
- The Lord of the Rings — J.R.R. Tolkien
- Talent — Tyler Cowen & Daniel Gross
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin — Benjamin Franklin
- Only the Paranoid Survive — Andy Grove
- Invent and Wander — Jeff Bezos
- The Laws of Trading — Agustin Lebron
- Poor Charlie's Almanack — Charlie Munger
- Sam Walton: Made in America — Sam Walton
- 7 Powers — Hamilton Helmer
- Stubborn Attachments — Tyler Cowen
- Working Backwards — Colin Bryar & Bill Carr
- The Inner Game of Tennis — W. Timothy Gallwey
- The Night Manager — John le Carré
- Single & Single — John le Carré
- The Constant Gardener — John le Carré
- The Karla Trilogy: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy, Smiley's People — John le Carré
Favourite writers