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x, 261 pages ; 22 cm, Reporter Alexandra Wolfes biting but admiring story of Silicon Valley, and the men and women whose hubris and ambition are changing the world. Each year, young people from around the world go to Silicon Valley to hatch an idea, start a company, strike it rich, and become powerful and famous. In \"a jauntily paced anthropological look at Northern Californias techtopia\" (Bloomberg Businessweek), reporter and columnist for The Wall Street Journal Alexandra Wolfe follows three of these upstarts who have \"stopped out\" of college and real life in the hopes of becoming the next Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk. Meet the billionaires who go to training clubs for thirty-minute \"body slams\" designed to fit in with the start-up schedule; attend parties where people devour peanut butter-and-jelly sushi rolls; and date and seduce in a romantic culture in which thick glasses, baggy jeans, and a t-shirt is the costume of any sex symbol (and where a jacket and tie symbolize mediocrity). Through Wolfes eyes, we discover how they date and marry, how they dress and live, how they plot and dream, and how they have created a business world and an economic order that has made us a

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Author

Wolfe, Alexandra, author

Publisher

New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781476778952

Category

business

Subjects

Economics, Management, Finance

Rating

2.88 / 5 (207 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14