Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age

Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age

Acclaimed historian Leslie Berlinâ€™s â€œdeeply researched and dramatic narrative of Silicon Valleyâ€™s early yearsâ€¦is a meticulously toldâ€¦compelling historyâ€ (The New York Times) of the men and women who chased innovation, and ended up changing the world.

Troublemakers is the gripping tale of seven exceptional men and women, pioneers of Silicon Valley in the 1970s and early 1980s. Together, they worked across generations, industries, and companies to bring technology from Pentagon offices and university laboratories to the rest of us. In doing so, they changed the world.

â€œIn this vigorous accountâ€¦a sturdy, skillfully constructed workâ€ (Kirkus Reviews), historian Leslie Berlin introduces the people and stories behind the birth of the Internet and the microprocessor, as well as Apple, Atari, Genentech, Xerox PARC, ROLM, ASK, and the iconic venture capital firms Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. In the space of only seven years, five major industriesâ€”personal computing, video games, biotechnology, modern venture capital, and advanced semiconductor logicâ€”were born.

â€œThere is much to learn from Berlinâ€™s account, particularly that Silicon Valley has long provided the backdrop where technology, elite education, institutional capital, and entrepreneurship collide with incredible forceâ€ (The Christian Science Monitor). Featured among well-known Silicon Valley innovators are Mike Markkula, the underappreciated chairman of Apple who owned one-third of the company; Bob Taylor, who masterminded the personal computer; software entrepreneur Sandra Kurtzig, the first woman to take a technology company public; Bob Swanson, the cofounder of Genentech; Al Alcorn, the Atari engineer behind the first successful video game; Fawn Alvarez, who rose from the factory line to the executive suite; and Niels Reimers, the Stanford administrator who changed how university innovations reach the public. Together, these troublemakers rewrote the rules and invented the future.
Country USA
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2017-11-07
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2017-11-07
Format	Kindle eBook

Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age

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