Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley (As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom) Audiobook (Free)

‘This is the most significant book on Silicon Valley I’ve read in 2 decades. It will take us all back to our origins in the counterculture, and can remind us of the real nature from the creativity process, before we attempted to tame it with slogans and buzzwords.’ — Po Bronson, #1 NY Times bestselling author of The Nudist in the Past due Change and Nurtureshock

A candid, colorful, and comprehensive oral background that reveals the secrets of Silicon Valley — through the roots of Apple and Atari to about Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley (As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom) present clashes of Google and Facebook, and all of the start-ups and disruptions that happened on the way.

Hardly ever has one economy asserted itself as swiftly–and mainly because aggressively–as the entity we now know as Silicon Valley. Built with a seemingly permanent tradition of reinvention, Silicon Valley will not battle change; it embraces it, and now forces the American overall economy and global advancement.

So how do this omnipotent and ever-morphing place come to be? It was not really by planning. It had been, like many an empire before it, part luck, component timing, and part ambition. And part pure, unbridled genius…

Sketching on over 2 hundred in-depth interviews, VALLEY OF GENIUS calls for readers from your dawn of the personal computer and the internet, through the heyday of the net, up to the instant when our current technological reality was developed. It interweaves accounts of invention and betrayal, overnight success and underground exploits, to inform the story of Silicon Valley like it has never been told before. Browse it to find the tales that Valley insiders inform one another: the tall tales that are, improbably, true.