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Gabriel Weinberg

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Since 2008, I've been the CEO & Founder of DuckDuckGo, the Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs. Our private search engine is #4 in the U.S., Germany, Australia and dozens of other countries, answering over 9 billion queries in 2018.

I also co-authored Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models (Penguin Portfolio, 2019). Previously I co-authored Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth (Penguin Portfolio, 2015).

Before DuckDuckGo, I founded other Internet-related companies. My formal education is from MIT (B.S. Physics, '97-01; M.S. from the Technology and Policy Program '03-05). I live in Valley Forge, PA with my wife and tw ...more

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	Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers by Gabriel Weinberg (Goodreads Author), Justin Mares (Goodreads Author) 4.12 avg rating — 8,834 ratings — published 2014 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models by Gabriel Weinberg (Goodreads Author), Lauren McCann 4.05 avg rating — 1,991 ratings — published 2019 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth by Gabriel Weinberg (Goodreads Author), Justin Mares (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 41 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ultralearning / Super Thinking / Range by Scott H. Young (Goodreads Author), Gabriel Weinberg (Goodreads Author), Lauren McCann 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hacker Monthly Issue 10 by Rahul Vohra, Gabriel Weinberg (Goodreads Author), Evan Miller 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hacker Monthly Issue 12 by Des Traynor (Goodreads Author), Ryan McDermott, Gustavo Duarte 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Super Thinking: Upgrade Your Reasoning and Make Better Decisions with Mental Models by Gabriel Weinberg (Goodreads Author), Lauren McCann 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hacker Monthly Issue 4 by Clay Johnson, Tom Moertel, Sachin Agarwal really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tração: Domine os 19 Canais que uma Startup usa Para Atingir Aumento Exponencial em sua Base de Cliente by Gabriel Weinberg (Goodreads Author), Justin Mares (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Almost every failed startup has a product. What failed startups don’t have are enough customers.”
― Gabriel Weinberg, Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers

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“Poor distribution - not product - is the number one cause of failure.”
― Gabriel Weinberg, Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers

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“The faster you run high quality experiments, the more likely you’ll find scalable, effective growth tactics. Determining the success of a customer acquisition idea is dependent on an effective tracking and reporting system, so don’t start testing until your tracking/reporting system has been implemented.”
― Gabriel Weinberg, Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers

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