Learning Curve: A Novel of Silicon Valley

by Michael S. Malone

Get an inside view of the breathless, winner-take-all world of high technology--Silicon Valley style--in this fast-paced corporate thriller. Veteran businessman Dan Crowen is finally handed the reins of a large, successful tech firm, Validator Software--only to be ordered by its eccentric owner, Cosmo Validator, to take a step that could destroy the company. Young entrepreneur Alison Prue is at the helm of Validator's upstart rival, eTernity. When the venture capitalists funding eTernity decide it's time to take the the hot young startup public and go head-to-head against Validator, both Alison and Dan are caught up in a global tsunami of high-tech conspiracies. Nothing's as it seems in this high-stakes game of cat and mouse that will keep you guessing the whole way through.

176 pages, Hardcover

First published July 18, 2013

About the author

Michael S. Malone is a journalist and author who has been nominated for the Pulitzer price twice for his investigative journalism contributions. He has a regular column Silicon Dreams in Forbes (previosuly Silicon Insider for ABC)


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Reviews

[Sean Randall · Rating 3 out of 5]

The topic didn't interest me, it was far too corporation to hold very much of meaning to me at this stage in my leisure reading career. I enjoyed the writing, so I will be trying another of his many titles.

[Tony · Rating 2 out of 5]

Talented writer with an interesting story concept, but the pacing and plotting let it down.

Some major proofing problems too (such as the ever-changing daughter's name).