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"Part memoir, part history, 'Burn Book' is a necessary chronicle of tech's most powerful players. This is the inside story we've all been waiting for about modern Silicon Valley and the biggest boom in wealth creation in the history of the world . . . Swisher has interviewed everyone who matters in tech over three decades, right when they presided over an explosion of world-changing innovation that has both helped and hurt our world. Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Sheryl Sandberg, Bob Iger, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Meg Whitman, Peter Thiel, Sam Altman, and Mark Zuckerberg are just a few wom Swisher made sweat--figuratively and, in Zuckerberg's case, literally"--Provided by publisher.

The author offers a coming-of-age look at her time in a big-data startup in Silicon Valley. Discusses the current state of the tech industry that is being destroyed from within from greed, self-delusion, excess, ambitious power, and misogyny.

"The . . . behind-the-scenes history of the people who built Silicon Valley and shaped Big Tech in America"--Provided by publisher.

"A frank, smart and captivating memoir by the daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs. Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents--artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs--Lisa Brennan-Jobs's childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley. When she was young, Lisa's father was a mythical figure who was rarely present in her life. As she grew older, her father took an interest in her, ushering her into a new world of mansions, vacations, and private schools. His attention was thrilling, but he could also be cold, critical and unpredictable"--Provided by publisher.

Each year, young people from around the globe go to Silicon Valley to hatch an idea, start a company, strike it rich, and become powerful and famous if they can. This is the story of three people who have "stopped out" of college and real life, to work in Silicon Valley. They embody an American cultural transformation: a move away from the East Coast hierarchy of Ivy Leage schools and country clubs toward a start-up life and a new social order, shaking up a lot of traditional rituals along the way.

Presents the biography of Robert Noyce, the co-inventor of the integrated circuit, and chronicles his life and career as a leading entrepreneur and co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel.

Examines the political power of the high-tech industries and includes discussions on the divide in political ideologies, Northern California social values, and views on globalism.

California detective Frank Bishop, a cop used to more straightforward homicide cases, teams up with Wyatt Gillette, a convicted computer hacker, to stop a ruthless killer who uses hacking as a tool to invade--and end--Silicon Valley residents' lives, one by one.

Eighteen-year-old twins Adam and Amelia Dory grew up in foster care relying on each other, but as scholarship students at Stanford University, shy Amelia's ingenious computer "app" and gregarious Adam's yearning for a life of privilege lead them to start a new company--and into a world of conflict.