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  • The Upstarts

  • How Uber, Airbnb and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World
  • Written by: Brad Stone
  • Narrated by: Mr Dean Temple
  • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (25 ratings)

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Written by: Brad Stone
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Publisher's Summary

New York Times best-selling author of The Everything Store Brad Stone takes us deep inside the new Silicon Valley.

Ten years ago the idea of getting into a stranger's car or walking into a stranger's home would have seemed bizarre and dangerous, but today it's as common as ordering a book online. Uber and Airbnb are household names: redefining neighbourhoods, challenging the way governments regulate business and changing the way we travel.

In the spirit of iconic Silicon Valley renegades like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, a new generation of entrepreneurs is sparking yet another cultural upheaval through technology. They are among the Upstarts, idiosyncratic founders with limitless drive and an abundance of self-confidence. Young, hungry and brilliant, they are rewriting the traditional rules of business, changing our day-to-day lives and often sidestepping serious ethical and legal obstacles in the process.

The Upstarts is the definitive account of a dawning age of tenacity, creativity, conflict and wealth. In Brad Stone's highly anticipated and riveting account of the most radical companies of the new Silicon Valley, we find out how it all started and how the world is wildly different than it was 10 years ago.

©2017 Brad Stone (P)2017 Penguin Random House UK

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This book is just so awesome!!

The narration, the story and all the aspects of this book are worth recommending to everyone, be it an entrepreneur or a history buff. Surely a must read for an entrepreneur. The story, research about all the facts, people and authorities involved and the way of narrating those is fantastic.

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Amazing book

Best book I have read. Great to know how Airbnb and Uber started and the impact they have had and the sheer tenacity and perseverance of the founders. Love it.

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An undercooked book

The book starts good but fizzes away aa it progresses. A book you can skip.

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