Image for The upstarts  : Uber, Airbnb and the battle for the new Silicon Valley

The upstarts : Uber, Airbnb and the battle for the new Silicon Valley

See all formats and editions

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.

Read More
Available
£8.99 Save 25.00%
RRP £11.99
Add Line Customisation
3 in stock Need More ?
Add to List
Product Details
Corgi Books
0552172588 / 9780552172585
Paperback / softback
650.1
05/04/2018
United Kingdom
English
xiv, 433 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
20 cm
Reprint. Originally published: London: Bantam Press, 2017.