Bibliograph

Troublemakers, Silicon Valley's coming of age, Leslie Berlin

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Troublemakers, Silicon Valley's coming of age, Leslie Berlin

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [381]-387) and index

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contains biographical information

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Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Troublemakers

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Leslie Berlin

Sub title

Silicon Valley's coming of age

Summary

In Troublemakers, historian Leslie Berlin introduces the people and stories behind the birth of the Internet and the microprocessor, as well as Apple, Atari, Genentech, Xerox PARC, ROLM, ASK, and the iconic venture capital firms Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Featured among well-known innovators like Steve Jobs, Regis McKenna, Larry Ellison, and Don Valentine are Mike Markkula, chairman of Apple who owned one-third of the company; Bob Taylor, who kick-started the Arpanet and masterminded the personal computer; software entrepreneur Sandra Kurtzig, the first woman to take a technology company public; Bob Swanson, the cofounder of Genentech; Al Alcorn, the Atari engineer behind the first wildly successful video game; Fawn Alvarez, who rose from an assembler on a factory line to the executive suite; and Niels Reimers, the Stanford administrator who changed how university innovations reach the public --, Adapted from publisher description

Target audience

adult

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Silicon Valley's coming of age

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