The Valley of the Gods: A Silicon Valley Story Audiobook (Free)

Reporter Alexandra Wolfe’s biting but admiring tale of Silicon Valley, and the women and men whose hubris and ambition are changing the globe.

Each year, teenagers from all over the world go to Silicon Valley to hatch an idea, start a company, strike it rich, and become effective and well-known. In “a jauntily paced anthropological take a look at Northern California’s techtopia” (Bloomberg Businessweek), reporter and columnist for The Wall structure Road Journal Alexandra Wolfe follows three of these upstarts about The Valley of the Gods: A Silicon Valley Tale who have “ceased out” of university and true to life in the expectations of becoming another Tag Zuckerberg or Elon Musk.

Meet up with the billionaires who go to teaching golf clubs for thirty-minute “body system slams” designed to participate in the start-up plan; attend parties where people devour peanut butter-and-jelly sushi rolls; and day and seduce in an enchanting culture where thick glasses, baggy denim jeans, and a t-shirt is the outfit of any sex symbol (and where a jacket and tie symbolize mediocrity). Through Wolfe’s eyes, we learn how they date and marry, how they outfit and live, the way they story and dream, and exactly how they possess created a business world and an economic order that has made us all devotees of these.

In her blistering and hysterical study of this new ruling class, Wolfe “offers a disclosing peek in the privilege, force, and profligacy of Silicon Valley” (Town & Country). Valley from the Gods “catches the absurdity of this brave new world, pierces the hype, but also conveys the dreams and the passions that may form a world’s economy” (USA TODAY).