The Upstarts

New York Times bestselling author of The Everything Store Brad Stone takes us deep inside the new Silicon Valley.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, but today it's as common as ordering a book online. Uber and Airbnb are household names: redefining neighbourhoods, 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, a new generation of entrepreneurs is sparking yet another cultural upheaval through technology. They are among the Upstarts, idiosyncratic founders with limitless drive and an abundance of self-confidence. Young, hungry and brilliant, they are rewriting the traditional rules of business, changing our day-to-day lives and often sidestepping serious ethical and legal obstacles in the process.The Upstarts is the definitive account of a dawning age of tenacity, creativity, conflict and wealth. In Brad Stone's highly anticipated and riveting account of the most radical companies of the new Silicon Valley, we find out how it all started, and how the world is wildly different than it was ten years ago.

Report

Readers will find plenty of food for thought in Brad Stone's The Upstarts, the most detailed investigation yet into the early years of these Silicon Valley prodigies. It's an entertaining and well-crafted account... a careful character portrait of both Uber and Airbnb. Read it and you will be able to judge them for yourself. FT

Product details

• Authors: Brad Stone, Stone Brad
• Publisher: Corgi
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.04.2018
• EAN: 9780552172585
• ISBN: 978-0-552-17258-5
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 198 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / General, Business and Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / E-Commerce / General, Entrepreneurship, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management, Business & management, Technology: general issues, Business innovation, Business studies: general, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society