{"id":4354,"date":"2026-02-15T10:28:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T15:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.profitless.com\/?p=4354"},"modified":"2026-02-15T10:28:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T15:28:02","slug":"intuits-sasan-goodarzi-doesnt-read-books-but-hes-got-one-to-recommend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.profitless.com\/?p=4354","title":{"rendered":"Intuit&#8217;s Sasan Goodarzi Doesn&#8217;t Read Books, But He&#8217;s Got One to Recommend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sasan Goodarzi, the CEO of Intuit, wants you to know he doesn&#8217;t read books. Thinks they&#8217;re a waste of time. But if you put a gun to his head and made him recommend one? Angela Duckworth&#8217;s <em>Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Let that settle in for a second.<\/p>\n<p>The man running a $160 billion company is publicly bragging that books are beneath him, and his one exception is the most airport-bookstore, LinkedIn-influencer, TED-talk-to-paperback title of the last decade. A book whose thesis can be summarized in four words: try hard, don&#8217;t quit.<\/p>\n<p>Groundbreaking stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sasan Goodarzi, the CEO of Intuit, wants you to know he doesn&#8217;t read books. Thinks they&#8217;re a waste of time. But if you put a gun to his head and made him recommend one? Angela Duckworth&#8217;s Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance. Let that settle in for a second. The man running a $160 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[130,131],"class_list":{"0":"post-4354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-management","7":"tag-intuit","8":"tag-sasan-goodarzi"},"acf":{"sources":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.profitless.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.profitless.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.profitless.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.profitless.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.profitless.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.profitless.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.profitless.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.profitless.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.profitless.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}