Burn Book: A Tech Love Story by Kara Swisher

Description: Burn Book by Kara Swisher From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead. While tech titans bragged they would "move fast and break things," Kara Swisher was moving faster and breaking news. Covering the explosion of the digital sector in the early 1990s, she developed a long track record of digging up and reporting the truth of this new world order. Her consistent scoops drove one CEO to accuse her of "listening in the heating ducts" and for Facebooks Sheryl Sandberg to once say: "It is a constant joke in the Valley when people write memos for them to say, I hope Kara never sees this." Burn Book is part memoir, part history and, most of all, a necessary recounting of techs most powerful players. This is the inside story weve all been waiting for of modern Silicon Valley and the biggest boom in wealth creation in the history of the world. While still in college, Swisher got her start at The Washington Post, where she became one of the few people in journalism interested in the emerging field of tech. She was among the first to recognize the potential of the internet, accurately predicting that "everything that could be digitized, would be digitized." She went on to work for The Wall Story Journal, joining with Walt Mossberg to start the groundbreaking AllThingsD conference, as well as pioneering online tech sites. Its only a slight exaggeration to say Swisher has interviewed everyone. Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Bob Iger, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Meg Whitman, Peter Thiel, and Mark Zuckerberg are just a few who Swisher made sweat--figuratively and, in one famous case, literally. Despite the damage she chronicles, Swisher remains optimistic about techs potential to help solve problems and not just create them. She calls upon the industry to make better, more thoughtful choices, even as a new set of powerful AI tools are poised to change the world yet again. At its heart, this book is a love story to, for, and about tech from someone who knows it better than anyone. Burn Book includes soaring tales of innovation and brilliant entrepreneurs, as well as Silicon Valleys much more complex history of striving, success, and failure. The book details how the commercial internet came into being and how, for all it has given the world, it now sits at the center of global power, creating a clear and present danger to humanity. CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Kara Swisher, the author of three books, is the host of the podcast On with Kara Swisher and the cohost of the Pivot podcast with Scott Galloway, both distributed by New York magazine. She was also the cofounder and editor-at-large of Recode, host of the Recode Decode podcast, and co-executive producer of the Code conference. She is a former contributing opinion writer for the New York Times and has also worked for the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post.Kara Swisher, the author of three books, is the host of the podcast On with Kara Swisher and the cohost of the Pivot podcast with Scott Galloway, both distributed by New York magazine. She was also the cofounder and editor-at-large of Recode, host of the Recode Decode podcast, and co-executive producer of the Code conference. She is a former contributing opinion writer for the New York Times and has also worked for the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. Details ISBN179717505X Author Kara Swisher Publisher Simon & Schuster Audio Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781797175058 Imprint Simon & Schuster Audio Subtitle A Tech Love Story Audience General Narrator Kara Swisher Publication Date 2024-02-27 Playing time 460 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159138690;

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