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The Upstarts by Brad Stone (2017, Hardcover) LARGE PRINT, Ex-Lib
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Personalize
- No
- Era
- 2010s
- Signed
- No
- Ex Libris
- Yes
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Personalized
- No
- Original Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Inscribed
- No
- Vintage
- No
- ISBN
- 9780316396813
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Little Brown & Company
ISBN-10
0316396818
ISBN-13
9780316396813
eBay Product ID (ePID)
229051310
Product Key Features
Book Title
Upstarts : How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World
Number of Pages
544 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Topic
Industries / Computers & Information Technology, Personal Success, Entrepreneurship, Technical & Manufacturing Industries & Trades, New Business Enterprises, Industrial Technology
Illustrator
Yes
Features
Large Type
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.8 in
Item Weight
29.8 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"[Stone] amply illustrates that for every tech champion, there is a forgotten crowd of decapitated competitors, pissed-off investors, defenestrated founders and unrewarded early employees... where Stone really succeeds is in providing the reader with the visceral experience of the start-up enterprise."-- Antonio Garcia-Martinez, Washington Post, "The most detailed investigation yet into the early years of these Silicon Valley prodigies... an entertaining and well-crafted account."-- Leslie Hook, Financial Times, "The Upstarts is a testament to grit-lots and lots of it-and, yes, luck. It's quite a good read."-- Brenda Jubin, Investing.com, "Stone brings a big dose of truth serum to the marvels and machinations of the sharing economy and its founders.... 'The Upstarts' is rich with inside details"-- George Anders, Forbes, "Terrific... What is great about The Upstarts is that in learning the history of Uber and Airbnb, we learn that the founders of these companies had little idea about the eventual impact of their business models."-- Joshua Kim, Inside Higher Education, "A penetrating study marked by the same thorough reporting that distinguished [The Everything Store]. No figure is too obscure in the annals of Uber and Airbnb for Stone to track down, including the poignant stories of sundry entrepreneurs who converged on similar ideas but, amid various missteps, failed to find traction."-- Stephen Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, Praise for The Everything Store Winner of the 2013 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award SELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, FORBES, THE NEW REPUBLIC, THE ECONOMIST, BLOOMBERG, AND GIZMODO, AND AS ONE OF THE TOP 10 INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM BOOKS OF 2013 BY NIEMAN REPORTS "Mr. Stone tells this story with authority and verve, and lots of well-informed reporting.... A dynamic portrait of the driven and demanding Mr. Bezos."-- Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, "A fun, briskly told narrative... 'The Upstarts' is not the end of the story but an excellent history of the beginning."-- Alex Tabarrok, Wall Street Journal
Dewey Decimal
338.04/09273
Edition Description
Large Type / large print edition
Synopsis
ONE OF AMAZON'S BEST BOOKS OF 2017 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 walking into a stranger's home, would have seemed bizarre and dangerous--yet today it is as common as ordering a book online. Companies like Uber and Airbnb have redefined the way we live. And while they have become pervasive in our day-to-day lives, they are not universally celebrated. They are the result of a generation of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who used technology to upend convention and disrupt entire industries. Led by Travis Kalanick of Uber and Brian Chesky of Airbnb, these are the upstarts, founders with an overabundance of self-confidence and a limitless drive that pushed them to rewrite the rules, better and sometimes for worse. Now with a new epilogue and updated throughout, The Upstarts takes us deep into the origins--and controversy--of these new titans of business., 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.
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