{"product_id":"silicon-sky-9780738203126","title":"Silicon Sky","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Gary Dorsey\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Basic Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Corporate \u0026amp; Business History - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Basic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45355778375831,"sku":"9780738203126","price":1676.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780738203126.webp?v=1767309052","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/silicon-sky-9780738203126","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}