Randall E. Stross

Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan To Organize Everything We Know (2008)

A pretty interesting read but already way out of date by 2012! It helped me understand and appreciate why Google is as evil as they are, despite their stance against it. I fear for the world where everything private is online ready to be hacked. Google as a company *does not have the security ...

The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's Most Exclusive School for Startups (2012)

Well written and very interesting for the behind the scenes view of Y Combinator as well as a number of startups going through their program. I found the specifics of how the variety of companies profiled came up with their ideas and moved them forward to be interesting. I also learned from the d...

The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World (2007)