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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 4.40 — 288,051 ratings — published 2018
Uncanny Valley (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 3.63 — 35,787 ratings — published 2020
Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,387,274 ratings — published 2011
Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 3.71 — 13,698 ratings — published 2016
Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,025 ratings — published 2018
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 4.14 — 14,354 ratings — published 2019
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 4.14 — 416,295 ratings — published 2014
The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 3.76 — 10,394 ratings — published 1999
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 4.12 — 142,266 ratings — published 2025
Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 4.04 — 19,169 ratings — published 2013
The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 4.04 — 7,499 ratings — published 2017
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 4.13 — 78,556 ratings — published 2013
The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 3.82 — 19,249 ratings — published 2017
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 4.12 — 40,449 ratings — published 2014
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 4.12 — 454,537 ratings — published 2015
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 4.16 — 8,644 ratings — published 1984
Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley (As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom)
by (shelved 12 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,374 ratings — published 2018
The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,195 ratings — published 2019
The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 3.59 — 17,474 ratings — published 2009
How Google Works (ebook)
by (shelved 11 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 4.05 — 29,735 ratings — published 2014
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 4.05 — 14,151 ratings — published 2018
No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 4.10 — 11,064 ratings — published 2020
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 4.20 — 105,244 ratings — published 2014
The Circle (The Circle, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 3.43 — 235,006 ratings — published 2013
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 4.38 — 46,134 ratings — published 2022
AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 4.09 — 17,047 ratings — published 2018
The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 4.03 — 62,434 ratings — published 1997
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 4.19 — 113,928 ratings — published 2014
Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 3.91 — 17,215 ratings — published 2016
Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,000 ratings — published 1992
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 4.02 — 14,767 ratings — published 2025
Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,315 ratings — published 2018
Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 4.09 — 773 ratings — published 2017
World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,275 ratings — published 2017
Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,527 ratings — published 2000
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 3.84 — 30,024 ratings — published 2011
Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 4.03 — 31,984 ratings — published 2002
The Soul of a New Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,762 ratings — published 1981
Elon Musk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 4.32 — 80,562 ratings — published 2023
The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,666 ratings — published 2022
The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,050 ratings — published 2022
Microserfs (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 3.89 — 24,737 ratings — published 1995
The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That is Connecting the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 3.86 — 11,909 ratings — published 2010
Revolution in The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,427 ratings — published 2004
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 3.72 — 218,524 ratings — published 2012
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,781 ratings — published 2023
From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 3.98 — 691 ratings — published 2006
The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and the Rise of the Silicon Valley Oligarchs (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,589 ratings — published 2021
Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 4.09 — 13,667 ratings — published 2020
Facebook: The Inside Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as silicon-valley)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,015 ratings — published 2020
“The clarity of Aravind Srinivas's vision for AI-accelerated knowledge discovery is magnetizing talent and driving Perplexity's rapid execution”
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“And what these winners wanted was for the world to be changed in ways that had their buy-in—think charter schools over more equal public school funding, or poverty-reducing tech companies over antitrust regulation of tech companies. The entrepreneurs were willing to participate in making the world better if you pursued that goal in a way that exonerated and celebrated and depended on them.”
― Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
― Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
