The Spirit Of Silicon Valley
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The Spirit Of Silicon Valley
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Author : Anolia Orfrecio Facun
language : en
Publisher: Aardvark Global Publishing DBA Ecko Publishing
Release Date : 2011-09
The Spirit Of Silicon Valley written by Anolia Orfrecio Facun and has been published by Aardvark Global Publishing DBA Ecko Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09 with Business & Economics categories.
The Spirit of Silicon Valley allows you to discover the true spirit beyond this once agricultural land in California--known worldwide as Silicon Valley--which now blossoms with brilliant innovation and leading edge technology. Although most famous for the tech industry, it is the people that truly make Silicon Valley special. It's their resilient spirit, their courageous quest not only to survive, but thrive, in whatever given circumstance they may face, bolstered by endless opportunities, and supported by an encouraging environment. Discover the real Silicon Valley through the eyes of newsmakers and entrepreneurs who call the Valley their home. Share deep insight into the people, culture and diversity of this distinctive area through their unique and amazing journeys and transformations.
The New New Thing
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Author : Michael Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-09-13
The New New Thing written by Michael Lewis and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-13 with Business & Economics categories.
*The classic New York Times Bestseller* 'Hugely enjoyable...it reads like a novel, a fantasy tale of rags and riches that happens to be true' Sunday Times 'A fascinating journey into the Wild West of American capitalism' Daily Telegraph __________ In the last years of the millennium, Michael Lewis sets out to find the world's most important technology entrepreneur, the man who embodies the spirit of the coming age. He finds him in Jim Clark, the billionaire who founded Netscape and Silicon Graphics and who now aims to turn the healthcare industry on its head with his latest billion-dollar project. Lewis accompanies Clark on the maiden voyage of his vast yacht and, on the sometimes hazardous journey, takes the reader on the ride of a lifetime through a landscape of geeks and billionaires. Through every brilliant anecdote and funny character sketch, Michael Lewis allows us an inside look at the world of the super-rich, whilst drawing a map of free enterprise in the twenty-first century. __________ From the author of the #1 bestseller THE BIG SHORT and the original business classic LIAR'S POKER comes the definitive 21st-century business story. 'A superb book. . . . Lewis makes Silicon Valley as thrilling and intelligible as he made Wall Street in his best-selling Liar's Poker.' Time
The Silicon Valley Edge
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Author : Chong-Moon Lee
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2000
The Silicon Valley Edge written by Chong-Moon Lee and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Business & Economics categories.
Looks at Silicon Valley's business environment, and what features have made it a fertile ground for start-up companies who develop radical and disruptive technologies.
Chaos Monkeys
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Author : Antonio Garcia Martinez
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2018-07-24
Chaos Monkeys written by Antonio Garcia Martinez and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-24 with Business & Economics categories.
The instant New York Times bestseller, now available in paperback and featuring a new afterword from the author—the insider's guide to the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal, the inner workings of the tech world, and who really runs Silicon Valley “Incisive.... The most fun business book I have read this year.... Clearly there will be people who hate this book — which is probably one of the things that makes it such a great read.” — Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times Imagine a chimpanzee rampaging through a datacenter powering everything from Google to Facebook. Infrastructure engineers use a software version of this “chaos monkey” to test online services’ robustness—their ability to survive random failure and correct mistakes before they actually occur. Tech entrepreneurs are society’s chaos monkeys. One of Silicon Valley’s most audacious chaos monkeys is Antonio García Martínez. After stints on Wall Street and as CEO of his own startup, García Martínez joined Facebook’s nascent advertising team. Forced out in the wake of an internal product war over the future of the company’s monetization strategy, García Martínez eventually landed at rival Twitter. In Chaos Monkeys, this gleeful contrarian unravels the chaotic evolution of social media and online marketing and reveals how it is invading our lives and shaping our future.
Secrets Of Silicon Valley
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Author : Deborah Perry Piscione
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 2013-04-02
Secrets Of Silicon Valley written by Deborah Perry Piscione and has been published by St. Martin's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-02 with Business & Economics categories.
While the global economy languishes, one place just keeps growing despite failing banks, uncertain markets, and high unemployment: Silicon Valley. In the last two years, more than 100 incubators have popped up there, and the number of angel investors has skyrocketed. Today, 40 percent of all venture capital investments in the United States come from Silicon Valley firms, compared to 10 percent from New York. In Secrets of Silicon Valley, entrepreneur and media commentator Deborah Perry Piscione takes us inside this vibrant ecosystem where meritocracy rules the day. She explores Silicon Valley's exceptionally risk-tolerant culture, and why it thrives despite the many laws that make California one of the worst states in the union for business. Drawing on interviews with investors, entrepreneurs, and community leaders, as well as a host of case studies from Google to Paypal, Piscione argues that Silicon Valley's unique culture is the best hope for the future of American prosperity and the global business community and offers lessons from the Valley to inspire reform in other communities and industries, from Washington, DC to Wall Street.
Ghost Work
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Author : Mary L. Gray
language : en
Publisher: Eamon Dolan Books
Release Date : 2019
Ghost Work written by Mary L. Gray and has been published by Eamon Dolan Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with BUSINESS & ECONOMICS categories.
"A startling exposé of the invisible human workforce that powers the web--and how to bring it out of the shadows. Hidden beneath the surface of the internet, a new, stark reality is looming--one that cuts to the very heart of our endless debates about the impact of AI. Anthropologist Mary L. Gray and computer scientist Siddharth Suri unveil how the services we use from companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Uber can only function smoothly thanks to the judgment and experience of a vast human labor force that is kept deliberately concealed. The people who do 'ghost work' make the internet seem smart. They perform high-tech, on-demand piecework: flagging X-rated content, proofreading, transcribing audio, confirming identities, captioning video, and much more. The shameful truth is that no labor laws protect them or even acknowledge their existence. They often earn less than legal minimums for traditional work, they have no health benefits, and they can be fired at any time for any reason, or for no reason at all. An estimated 8 percent of Americans have worked in this 'ghost economy,' and that number is growing every day. In this unprecedented investigation, Gray and Suri make the case that robots will never completely eliminate 'ghost work' and the unchecked quest for artificial intelligence could spark catastrophic work conditions if not stopped in its tracks. Ultimately, they show how this essential type of work can create opportunity--rather than misery--for those who do it."--Dust jacket.
People S History Of Silicon Valley
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Author : Keith A Spencer
language : en
Publisher: eBook Partnership
Release Date : 2019-03-07
People S History Of Silicon Valley written by Keith A Spencer and has been published by eBook Partnership this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-07 with Computers categories.
Regardless of where you live or work, Silicon Valley undoubtedly touches your life-the tech industry's gadgets and apps promise us more efficient, convenient, and fun lives. Yet despite Silicon Valley's utopian promises, more and more of us find ourselves addicted to our smartphones, made insecure by social media, gentrified away by tech wealth, and alarmed at social media companies profiting off personal data. This succinct guide follows Silicon Valley and the tech industry from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day, tracing how Silicon Valley changed the San Francisco Bay Area, changed human culture, and ultimately changed the way we think about ourselves. From the first Macintosh to the rise of social media, A Brief History of Silicon Valley peels back the curtain on an industry that brands itself as visionary but which may be swiftly hurtling us towards dystopia.
History Of Silicon Valley
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Author : Mary Wadden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-01-01
History Of Silicon Valley written by Mary Wadden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-01 with Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.) categories.
Vintage photos populate this artful and timely book as it traces the evolution of Santa Clara Valley from the days of the Gold Rush through modern day. Filled with over 400 high resolution images, this book captures the spirit of Silicon Valley. More than just a place, Silicon Valley is a state of mind and this book serves as a tribute. If you have ever wondered why the microchip, personal computer and Internet were all born in Santa Clara Valley, this is a must read. --Amazon.com
The Code
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Author : Margaret O'Mara
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2019-07-09
The Code written by Margaret O'Mara and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-09 with Technology & Engineering categories.
One of New York Magazine's best books on Silicon Valley! The true, behind-the-scenes history of the people who built Silicon Valley and shaped Big Tech in America Long before Margaret O'Mara became one of our most consequential historians of the American-led digital revolution, she worked in the White House of Bill Clinton and Al Gore in the earliest days of the commercial Internet. There she saw firsthand how deeply intertwined Silicon Valley was with the federal government--and always had been--and how shallow the common understanding of the secrets of the Valley's success actually was. Now, after almost five years of pioneering research, O'Mara has produced the definitive history of Silicon Valley for our time, the story of mavericks and visionaries, but also of powerful institutions creating the framework for innovation, from the Pentagon to Stanford University. It is also a story of a community that started off remarkably homogeneous and tight-knit and stayed that way, and whose belief in its own mythology has deepened into a collective hubris that has led to astonishing triumphs as well as devastating second-order effects. Deploying a wonderfully rich and diverse cast of protagonists, from the justly famous to the unjustly obscure, across four generations of explosive growth in the Valley, from the forties to the present, O'Mara has wrestled one of the most fateful developments in modern American history into magnificent narrative form. She is on the ground with all of the key tech companies, chronicling the evolution in their offerings through each successive era, and she has a profound fingertip feel for the politics of the sector and its relation to the larger cultural narrative about tech as it has evolved over the years. Perhaps most impressive, O'Mara has penetrated the inner kingdom of tech venture capital firms, the insular and still remarkably old-boy world that became the cockpit of American capitalism and the crucible for bringing technological innovation to market, or not. The transformation of big tech into the engine room of the American economy and the nexus of so many of our hopes and dreams--and, increasingly, our nightmares--can be understood, in Margaret O'Mara's masterful hands, as the story of one California valley. As her majestic history makes clear, its fate is the fate of us all.
The Upstarts
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Author : Brad Stone
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2017-01-31
The Upstarts written by Brad Stone and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-31 with Business & Economics categories.
A look deep inside the new Silicon Valley, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Everything Store. Ten years ago, the idea of getting into a stranger's car, or a walking into a stranger's home, would have seemed bizarre and dangerous, but today it's as common as ordering a book online. Uber and Airbnb have ushered in a new era: redefining neighborhoods, challenging the way governments regulate business, and changing the way we travel. In the spirit of iconic Silicon Valley renegades like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, another generation of entrepreneurs is using technology to upend convention and disrupt entire industries. These are the upstarts, idiosyncratic founders with limitless drive and an abundance of self-confidence. Led by such visionaries as Travis Kalanick of Uber and Brian Chesky of Airbnb, they are rewriting the rules of business and often sidestepping serious ethical and legal obstacles in the process. The Upstarts is the definitive story of two new titans of business and a dawning age of tenacity, conflict and wealth. In Brad Stone's riveting account of the most radical companies of the new Silicon Valley, we discover how it all happened and what it took to change the world.