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Silicon Sky

by Gary Dorsey
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780738203126
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Basic Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 352
  • Original Price: GBP 16.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 522 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Corporate & Business History and Telecommunications

For more than a decade some of the world's most powerful defense companies have raced to launch the first constellation of low-earth orbit commercial satellites. The prize? An explosive global market for personal communications worth billions of dollars. Fresh out of Harvard Business School, twenty-something David Thompson entered the fray with an insane idea: to build his own rockets, satellites and a multi-million-dollar corporation that could go head-to-head against the big guys. His electrifying grab for the heavens-huge start-up costs, mind-blowing technical obstacles, and dark tangos with investors-is told by acclaimed writer Gary Dorsey, who was there reporting from inside. The story of their obsessive gamble in the high-stress game of space commerce is told through the lives of Thompson's managers, markets, and "freshouts"-a brilliant team of young engineers from the country's best universities. Like The Soul of a New Machine, Silicon Sky-part of the celebrated Sloan Technology Series-reads like fast-paced fiction, tracing the advent not just of a single company, but of a quickly emerging technological industry.

Gary Dorsey is the author of Congregation: The Journey Back to Church (Viking, 1995) and The Fullness of Wings: The Making of a New Daedalus (Viking, 1990), which was a National Book Award finalist.

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