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Silicon Valley Reads

Silicon Valley is a place but also a metaphor for a new wave of businesses. These books (both fiction and nonfiction) take on the history, controversies and big ideas of Silicon Valley business and its impact on our lives - for better and for worse.

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  • The Airbnb Story

    How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted An Industry, Made Billions... and Created Plenty of Controversy

    Gallagher, Leigh (Journalist),
    Book, 2017Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. — TX911.2.G35 2017
  • Bad Blood

    Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

    Carreyrou, John,
    Book, 2018New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. — HD9995.H423U627 2018
  • Chaos Monkeys

    Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

    García Martínez, Antonio,
    Book, 2016New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016] — HD9696.8.U62G37 2016
  • Book, 2013New York : Alfred A. Knopf/McSweeney's Books, [2013] — FICTION
  • Creativity, Inc.

    Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

    Catmull, Edwin E.
    Book, 2014New York : Random House, [2014] — HD53.C394 2014
  • Book, 2016New York : Del Rey, [2016] — FICTION
  • Elon Musk

    Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

    Vance, Ashlee,
    Book, 2015New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2015] — HC102.5.M88V36 2015
  • Everybody Lies

    Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are

    Stephens-Davidowitz, Seth,
    Book, 2017New York : Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow, [2017] — QA76.9.D343S74 2017
  • The Everything Store

    Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

    Stone, Brad,
    Book, 2013New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2013. — Z473.B47S76 2013
  • Extreme Teams

    Why Pixar, Netflix, AirBnB, and Other Cutting-edge Companies Succeed Where Most Fail

    Shaw, Robert Bruce,
    Book, 2017New York : American Management Association, [2017] — HD66.S4849 2017
  • Book, 20181030William Morrow & Company 20181030
  • The Four

    the Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google /

    Galloway, Scott,
    Book, 2017New York, New York : Portfolio/Penguin, [2017]
  • The Geography of Genius

    a Search for the World's Most Creative Places From Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley

    Weiner, Eric, 1963-
    Book, 2016New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016. — BF412.W395 2016
  • The Innovators

    How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

    Isaacson, Walter,
    Book, 2014New York : Simon & Schuster, 2014. — QA76.2.A2I87 2014
  • Live Work Work Work Die

    a Journey Into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley

    Pein, Corey,
    Book, 2018New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2018. — HD9696.8.U63C374 2018
  • Measure What Matters

    How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World With OKRs

    Doerr, John E.,
    Book, 2018New York, New York : Portfolio/Penguin, [2018] — HD30.28.D634 2018
  • Paperback, 2008New York : Harper Perennial, 2008, c1995. — FICTION