The Best CEOs: How the Wild, Wild Web Was Won

by Ian Halperin

Finally, a truly up-to-date book about the world's most successful CEOs!
Award-winning author Ian Halperin provides the inside story behind the story
of fascinating CEOs like Larry Ellison of Oracle and Margaret Whitman of
eBay, creating the first biographical motivational book on e-business success
stories. It's about a remarkable group of billionaire achievers who have
turned the existing power structure inside out, paving the way for the e-
commerce Internet revolution.

Best CEOs is a terrific read for anyone looking to become rich and
successful. This book will go a long way towards answering many of the
questions one might have about how to succeed not only in today's new
Internet economy, but in any business!

Copiously researched and documented, Best CEOs makes light of how the
Internet's top moguls hustled their way into power, grabbed control of the
world economy and made billion dollar fortunes by doing business online.

By reading about the struggles and successes of Internet giants like Larry
Ellison of Oracle or Steve Jobs of Apple, what you get is a no-nonsense guide
to launching and maintaining a business on the Internet, covering all points
from sales and marketing to developing customer relationships. The objective:
to create a most useful and compelling motivational book to making money
online, one that nobody on the Internet can afford to be without.

About the Author


Ian Halperin is the author of five major books, four of them being
international best-sellers. His books have sold all over the world and
recently he was ranked by the San Francisco Examiner as one of North
America's leading non-fiction authors during the past five years. Recently,
Halperin has appeared on/in...

NBC

CTV

ABC

MTV

Time

Newsweek

The New Yorker

POV

CNN

The Boston Globe

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Ian Halperin is a Canadian investigative journalist and writer whose 2009 book, Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson, which was a number one best seller on the New York Times list on July 24, 2009. He is the author or coauthor of nine books, including Celine Dion: Behind the Fairytale, Fire and Rain: The James Taylor Story and Hollywood Undercover. He coauthored Who Killed Kurt Cobain? and Love and Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain with Max Wallace. Halperin has contributed to 60 Minutes II and is a regular correspondent for Court TV.

Reviews

[Lucas K · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dated, but yet somehow, still relevant.

This book could literally be read in one or two nights. 187 pages of double spaced giant font, so its an easy read.

This book pulls no punches. I read it in 2021, having picked it up in a used book shop. The reason was, because of the 11 names on the cover, I recognized 5 of them - Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer, Louis Gerstner, and Jeff Bezos. Wanted to see what Ian had prognosticated about these 5 individuals.

The book didn't have a "this is how they did it" feel. It shifted from whatever the latest gossip was about the individual, back to their start in life and snippets of what inspired them to get to where they were in early 2001. Just before 9/11.

I gave it 3 stars, because there are things in here that I did not know, even 20 years after the book was published. So I did learn something.

Recommended if you can get it free or used.