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Peter Eagle Sims is an American author, investor, and entrepreneur. He is the author of three books, True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership (2007; co-authored with Bill George), Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries (2011), and Black Sheep: The Quest to Be Human in an Inhuman Time (2024). True North was a Wall Street Journal bestseller[1], and Little Bets was selected as one of the six best advice books for entrepreneurs by the Wall Street Journal.[2] According to Inc. Magazine, "As a former VC and longtime collaborator with the Stanford Institute of Design, Sims knows his way around disruptive ideas."[3]
Sims is the Founder & Chairman of BLK SHP (Black Sheep), a place and platform for experimentation and investing. Previously, he worked as an investor at Summit Partners in London where he co-founded the firm’s European office. He has also been an advisor at Google[x], The Moonshot Factory, Alphabet’s semi-secret innovation laboratory.[4] He was also part of the founding team for GivingTuesday, the global philanthropy movement.
Life
Sims is a graduate of Bowdoin College and Stanford Business School. He grew up in the rural foothills of Northern California, where his father was a county judge, and he attended Colfax High School.[5]
Works
- True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership, ISBN 978-0-7879-8751-0, with Bill George, 2007.
- Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries, ISBN 978-0-7879-8751-0, 2011.
- Black Sheep: The Quest to Be Human in an Inhuman Time, ISBN 978-1-9397-1425-1, 2024.
References
- ^ "True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership - Book - Faculty & Research - Harvard Business School". www.hbs.edu. Retrieved 2024-06-01.
- ^ Haislip, Barbara. "Entrepreneurs talk about the self-help books that actually helped them". WSJ. Retrieved 2024-06-01.
- ^ Buchanan, Leigh (May 3, 2011). "Book Review: Little Bets". Inc. Magazine.
- ^ "Peter Sims". Simon & Schuster. Retrieved 2024-06-01.
- ^ "Colfax High announces 2019 Hall of Fame inductees". goldcountrymedia.com. Retrieved 2024-06-01.