Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming Of Age

  • Autor: Leslie Berlin
  • Narrador: Amanda Carlin
  • Editora: Simon & Schuster
  • Duração: 16:40:53
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Sinopse

Acclaimed historian Leslie Berlin’s “deeply researched and dramatic narrative of Silicon Valley’s early years…is a meticulously told…compelling history” (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.

“In this vigorous account…a sturdy, skillfully constructed work” (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 industries—personal computing, video games, biotechnology, modern venture capital, and advanced semiconductor logic—were born.

“There is much to learn from Berlin’s account, particularly that Silicon Valley has long provided the backdrop where technology, elite education, institutional capital, and entrepreneurship collide with incredible force” (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.

Capítulos

  • TheTroublemakers 21 NoIdeaHowYouStartACompany

    Duração: 53min
  • TheTroublemakers 22 ThatFlipsMySwitch

    Duração: 23min
  • TheTroublemakers 23 IveNeverSeenAManTypeThatFast

    Duração: 35min
  • TheTroublemakers 24 ThereAreNoStandardsYet

    Duração: 01h05min
  • TheTroublemakers 25 Triumph

    Duração: 06min
  • TheTroublemakers 26 LooksLike100MillionToMe

    Duração: 34min
  • TheTroublemakers 27 SittingInAKiddleSeat

    Duração: 38min
  • TheTroublemakers 28 CanYouImagineYourGrandmotherUsingONe

    Duração: 23min
  • TheTroublemakers 29 YoungManiacs

    Duração: 46min
  • TheTroublemakers 30 WhatInTheHellAreYouTryingToSay

    Duração: 15min
  • TheTroublemakers 31 WeDontNeedAnyMoney

    Duração: 40min
  • TheTroublemakers 32 Transition

    Duração: 03min
  • TheTroublemakers 33 TheRabbitsHoppedAway

    Duração: 30min
  • TheTroublemakers 34 VideoNation

    Duração: 11min
  • TheTroublemakers 35 KnewItBeforeTheyDid

    Duração: 08min
  • TheTroublemakers 36 NoOneThoughtTheyWouldSell

    Duração: 10min
  • TheTroublemakers 37 TheEntireWorldWillNeverBeTheSame

    Duração: 09min
  • TheTroublemakers 38 SheWorksHardForTheMoney

    Duração: 05min
  • TheTroublemakers 39 Conclusion

    Duração: 12min
  • TheTroublemakers 40 PostScript

    Duração: 22min
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