{"product_id":"valley-of-the-gods-a-silicon-valley-story-9781476778952","title":"Valley of the Gods: A Silicon Valley Story","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Alexandra Wolfe\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Industries - Computers \u0026amp; Information Technology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReporter Alexandra Wolfe's biting but admiring story of Silicon Valley, and the men and women whose hubris and ambition are changing the world.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEach year, young people from around the world go to Silicon Valley to hatch an idea, start a company, strike it rich, and become powerful and famous. In \"a jauntily paced anthropological look at Northern California's techtopia\" (\u003ci\u003eBloomberg Businessweek\u003c\/i\u003e), reporter and columnist for \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal \u003c\/i\u003eAlexandra Wolfe follows three of these upstarts who have \"stopped out\" of college and real life in the hopes of becoming the next Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMeet the billionaires who go to training clubs for thirty-minute \"body slams\" designed to fit in with the start-up schedule; attend parties where people devour peanut butter-and-jelly sushi rolls; and date and seduce in a romantic culture in which thick glasses, baggy jeans, and a t-shirt is the costume of any sex symbol (and where a jacket and tie symbolize mediocrity). Through Wolfe's eyes, we discover how they date and marry, how they dress and live, how they plot and dream, and how they have created a business world and an economic order that has made us all devotees of them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn her blistering and hysterical examination of this new ruling class\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eWolfe \"offers a revealing peek inside the privilege, power, and profligacy of Silicon Valley\" (\u003ci\u003eTown \u0026amp; Country\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003ci\u003eValley of the Gods\u003c\/i\u003e \"captures the absurdity of this brave new world, pierces the hype, but also conveys the dreams and the passions that can shape a world's economy\" (\u003ci\u003eUSA TODAY\u003c\/i\u003e).","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45355149131927,"sku":"9781476778952","price":917.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781476778952.webp?v=1769291123","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/valley-of-the-gods-a-silicon-valley-story-9781476778952","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}