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Burn book : a tech love story / Kara Swisher.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection T14.5 .S95 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Swisher, Kara, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.)--History.
- Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.).
- Swisher, Kara.
- High technology industries--California--Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County)--History.
- High technology industries.
- Entrepreneurship--California--Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County).
- Entrepreneurship.
- Technological innovations--California--Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County).
- Technological innovations.
- Genre:
- autobiographies (literary works)
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 305 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2024.
- Summary:
- From an award-winning journalist comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead.
- "Part memoir, part history, Burn Book is a necessary chronicle of tech's most powerful players. This is the inside story we've all been waiting for about modern Silicon Valley and the biggest boom in wealth creation in the history of the world."--Amazon.
- "Part memoir, part history, Burn Book is a necessary chronicle of tech's most powerful players. This is the inside story we've all been waiting for about modern Silicon Valley and the biggest boom in wealth creation in the history of the world. ... Swisher has interviewed everyone who matters in tech over three decades, right when they presided over an explosion of world-changing innovation that has both helped and hurt our world. Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Sheryl Sandberg, Bob Iger, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Meg Whitman, Peter Thiel, Sam Altman, and Mark Zuckerberg are just a few wom Swisher made sweat--figuratively and, in Zuckerberg's case, literally."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- Prologue. Sheeple who need sheeple
- Babylon was
- Before the gold rush
- California, here I came
- Search me
- The mongoose
- The end of the beginning
- The golden god
- Sillywood
- The most dangerous man
- The Uber mensch
- Staying vertical
- Good bones
- I, asshole
- The mensches
- Pivoting
- Come with me if you want to live.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Beardwood Fund bookplate.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1982163895
- 9781982163891
- OCLC:
- 1393241009
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