I would recommend this book to somebody in the government (or in the developing world) trying to understand how Silicon Valley works.It does well as an entertaining history of why companies like Facebook have grown so fast, but tends towards over-exuberant and over-generalized proclamations about what leads to success in technology. As another reviewer stated, this book doesn't provide much beyond typical Fast Company articles. I'm not sure if it was the narrator -- probably the most annoying in the history of audiobooks -- or the content that made me pull the plug on this one. Said content was like some strange time-warp to 1999 where the internetz was gunna revolutionize everything all god's children were gonna own their own submarines. Isn't there enough of this BS out there already? Whatever. But to believe this twaddle you need to be without critical faculty, without sense of history and utterly devoid of common sense. 'Course since that describes more people that not, I guess I just answered my own question.
A little repetitive and unoriginal, but still had some very interesting stories and solid examples.
—Jasmincc
Liked the stories of how people started viral companies like eBay and paypal. Good book.
—chokabrutus4
Tupperware was way ahead of it's time.
—ekklesiaone
Largely anecdotal.
—ali
good
—EricaMeissner
