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Brad Stone

The Upstarts

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New York Times bestselling author of The Everything Store Brad Stone takes us deep inside the new Silicon Valley.


In 2007, the crash had Wall Street and Silicon Valley reeling. The original renegades like Steve Jobs were now the establishment, and tech had become a way of life for suburban moms as much as for visionaries. The Valley was ready for a new revolution. Enter THE UPSTARTS. Genius entrepreneurs with no lack of self-confidence created companies that turned our expectations on their heads. Travis Kalanick of Uber and Brian Chesky of Airbnb are just two of the disrupters Brad Stone examines in this fly-on-the-wall look at the intersection of tech, business, and culture. With unprecedented access to all the key players, Stone illuminates the smart, driven, and often comically flawed people who are upending industries and changing the way we all live and work.
The world today is vastly different than it was even ten years ago, and it is…
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  • Султан Бекмухамедовshared an impression6 years ago
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    • zarinamilovahas quoted4 years ago
      And you’ve got to be able to look at market waves and technology waves in a different way than other folks and see it happening sooner, know how to position yourself out there, prepare yourself, pick the right surfboard—in other words, bring the right management team in, build the right platform underneath you. Only then can you ride a truly great wave. At the end of the day, without that great wave, even if you are a great entrepreneur, you are not going to build a really great business.8
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      • Alexandrhas quoted5 years ago
        Among the throngs that gathered to brave the mid-Atlantic-winter chill, two groups of young entrepreneurs from San Francisco were on the verge of not just watching history but making it.
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        • Alexandrhas quoted5 years ago
          Upstart

          up·start \p-stärt\ (noun)
          1. A newly successful person, business, etc.
          2. A person who has recently begun an activity, become successful, etc., and who does not show proper respect for older and more experienced people or for the established way of doing things.
          —Adapted from Merriam-Webster’s Learner’s Dictionary
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