The Valley

by John Heilemann

The Valley is the remarkable story of how a sun-kissed silver of northern California was transformed by a ragtag assortment of immigrants, entrepreneurial outsiders, and technical visionaries into the cradle of the information revolution -- revitalizing America's economy, unleashing a technological Renaissance, and sparking what the legendary venture capitalist John Doerr calls "the largest legal creation of wealth in the history of the planet."Heilemann builds his narrative around a handful of Silicon Valley's most powerful and pivotal figures as he chronicles the successive wave of innovation, from the invention of the microprocessor to the rise of the PC to the explosion surrounding the Internet. Granted extraordinary and exclusive access to firms such as Intel, Sun Microsystems, and the venture capital citadel Kleiner Perkins, he offers intimate portraits of their leaders as they struggle for power over the industry that will shape the global economy in the new millennium.

448 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 2001

About the author

John Arthur Heilemann is an American journalist for New York magazine, where he mainly covers US politics. Previously, he was a staff writer for The New Yorker, Wired and The Economist. He is the co-author of the No. 1 New York Times bestseller Game Change Obama and the Clintons McCain and Palin and the Race of a Lifetime, about the 2008 US presidential campaign. Heilemann is also a political analyst for MSNBC.