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Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley (As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom)
by Adam Fisher
May 28, 2019 - June 4, 2019 (read/silicon-valley-etc)

Fisher, A. (2018). Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley (As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom). Twelve.


Twelve, 2018. 512 pages. Hardcover. 9781455559022

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the stories were almost never about money
In the Silicon Valley where I'm from, the stories…
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it's the service economy, but it’s in your own ho…
Scott Hassan: That same type of technology will b…
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it’s hard to manage anarchists
Blaine Cook: Rabble was pretty bored of working a…
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then I’ll kind of get that fire back in my belly
Ray Sidney: I got burnt-out. I was not feeling ve…
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Google AdSense arbitrage
Douglas Edwards: And it wasn’t just advertising f…

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Preface

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Silicon Valley, Explained
The story of the past, as told by the people of the future

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Silicon Valley, Explained
The story of the past, as told by the people of the future

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The Big Bang
Everything starts with Doug Engelbart

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The Big Bang
Everything starts with Doug Engelbart

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Ready Player One
The first T-shirt tycoon

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Ready Player One
The first T-shirt tycoon

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The Time Machine
Inventing the future at Xerox PARC

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The Time Machine
Inventing the future at Xerox PARC

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Breakout
Jobs and Woz change the game

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Breakout
Jobs and Woz change the game

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Towel Designers
Atari’s high-strung prima donnas

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Towel Designers
Atari’s high-strung prima donnas

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PARC Opens the Kimono
Good artists copy, great artists steal

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PARC Opens the Kimono
Good artists copy, great artists steal

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3P1C F41L
It’s game over for Atari

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3P1C F41L
It’s game over for Atari

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Hello, I’m Macintosh
It sure is great to get out of that bag

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Hello, I’m Macintosh
It sure is great to get out of that bag

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Fumbling the Future
Who blew it: Xerox PARC—or Steve Jobs?

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Fumbling the Future
Who blew it: Xerox PARC—or Steve Jobs?

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What Information Wants
Heroes of the computer revolution

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What Information Wants
Heroes of the computer revolution

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The Whole Earth ’Lectronic Link
Welcome to the restaurant at the end of the universe

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The Whole Earth ’Lectronic Link
Welcome to the restaurant at the end of the universe

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Reality Check
The new new thing—that wasn’t

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Reality Check
The new new thing—that wasn’t

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From Insanely Great to Greatly Insane
General Magic mentors a generation

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From Insanely Great to Greatly Insane
General Magic mentors a generation

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The Bengali Typhoon
Wired’s revolution of the month

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The Bengali Typhoon
Wired’s revolution of the month

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Toy Stories
From PARC to Pixar

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Toy Stories
From PARC to Pixar

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Jerry Garcia’s Last Words
Netscape opened at what?!

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Jerry Garcia’s Last Words
Netscape opened at what?!

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A Fish, a Barrel, and a Gun
Suck perfects the art of snark

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A Fish, a Barrel, and a Gun
Suck perfects the art of snark

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Culture Hacking
The cyberunderground goes mainstream

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Culture Hacking
The cyberunderground goes mainstream

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The Check Is in the Mail
eBay’s trillion-dollar garage sale

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The Check Is in the Mail
eBay’s trillion-dollar garage sale

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The Shape of the Internet
A problem of great googolplexity

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The Shape of the Internet
A problem of great googolplexity

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Free as in Beer
Two teenagers crash the music industry

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Free as in Beer
Two teenagers crash the music industry

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The Dot Bomb
Only the cockroaches survive… and you’re one of the cockroaches

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The Dot Bomb
Only the cockroaches survive… and you’re one of the cockroaches

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The Return of the King
iCame, iSaw, iConquered

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The Return of the King
iCame, iSaw, iConquered

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I’m Feeling Lucky
Google cracks the code

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I’m Feeling Lucky
Google cracks the code

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I’m CEO… Bitch
Zuck moves to Silicon Valley to “dominate” (and does)

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I’m CEO… Bitch
Zuck moves to Silicon Valley to “dominate” (and does)

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Purple People Eater
Apple, the company that cannibalizes itself

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Purple People Eater
Apple, the company that cannibalizes itself

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Twttr
Nose-ring-wearing, tattooed, neck-bearded, long-haired punk hippie misfits

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Twttr
Nose-ring-wearing, tattooed, neck-bearded, long-haired punk hippie misfits

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To Infinity… and Beyond!
Steve Jobs in memoriam

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To Infinity… and Beyond!
Steve Jobs in memoriam

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The Endless Frontier
The future history of Silicon Valley

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The Endless Frontier
The future history of Silicon Valley

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