Uncovering the Untold Story of Silicon Valley: Valley of Genius

Brice: Une narration originale comme un patchwork parfaitement assemblé de citations/interviews pr composer des chapitres captivants sur la naissance de la révolution digitale jusqu'à aujourd'hui. Et arriver à éclairer les échecs et les arbitrages visionnaires qui ont articulé la grande histoire.

France on Dec 18, 2022

g t: アップル、アマゾン、グーグル、などなど今君臨しているブランドがどのように立ち上がったか、面白く分かりやす書かれています。邦訳版あると良い。

Japan on Jul 19, 2022

Placeholder: Nice book

India on Jul 11, 2022

Andy_L!!: To paraphrase the title , the history of Silicon Valley from the pees that where there

Canada on Jan 20, 2022

Soledad: As close as you'll get to siiting in the cafe with all the movers and shakers from day one. Clarifies some of the confusions I had about who did what and when, the order some key things happened in (like the Xerox role in things , etc).
A very pleasant cruise of a read, and rammed full of gems which on aggregate provide an excellent insight into the revolution after the industrial one.

United Kingdom on Aug 23, 2018

David Zetland: Wow. This is a great book. I grew up in Silicon Valley, and I really appreciate these first hand accounts, which take quite a bit of editing skill to produce. Definitely better to "hear it from the horses' mouths" than get a reporter's perspective, which is limited by PoV as well as (often) being far too young to understand the Valley's evolution and ways. (FYI, I am far more interested in the early chapters, as Zuck's generation is too money-power-greedy to carry on the Valley's real tradition of freedom and hacking.)

Update [19 Nov] after I read the whole thing...

I bought this book for two reasons. First, I went to high school with its author Adam Fisher. Second, I am always interested in learning more about the history of innovation, entrepreneurship and start-ups.

I haven’t talked to Adam in 30 years, so my relation with him was more relevant in alerting me to the book’s existence than it was in my decision to buy it. That decision was based on Adam’s unusual method of telling the “uncensored history” through a “mashup” of first person perspectives on various Silicon Valley companies and trends. (Here’s the he-said-she-said excerpt on...

United States on Jul 16, 2018

Gary Moreau, Author: This book is “genius” on a number of fronts. The first is the writing itself. There isn’t any. With little narrative support the book is entirely made up of individual quotations grouped and stacked around the story of one Silicon Valley venture or another.

At first this gives the impression that the author played more the role of researcher and curator than traditional author. And then it hits you. Fisher, in choosing the quotes and stacking them as if they represent the conversations taking place at a group therapy session, is creating the narrative through context. And that is both ground breaking and ingenious—and that makes it a perfect way to tell the story of Silicon Valley.

By the end of the book, in fact, the individuality of the speakers begins to fade away and it begins to read like a traditional narrative. Although, journalistic to the end, the citations are never compromised. Brilliant writing, to be sure, on a par with the brilliance he writes about.

The stories are fascinating and there is little question that there is an abundance of genius on display here, or that technology really has changed the world. But did the people portrayed...

United States on Jul 13, 2018