A passionate, first person account of the visions, sacrifices, and rewards of modern technology giants
The collection of people being interviewed is a Who´s Who of tech startups
The emphasis is on the earliest stage of startups, not the part when the company is big and boring
Jessica Livingston is a founding partner at Y Combinator, a seed-stage venture firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Mountain View, California. She was previously vice president of marketing at investment bank Adams Harkness. In addition to her work with startups at Y Combinator, she organizes Startup School (www.StartupSchool.org). She has a bachelor's degree in English from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
Founders at Work recounts the early struggles for independence and acceptance of many of modern technology´s giants, through personal interviews that are at times hilarious, at times painful, and always inspiring. The book will interest anyone curious about what goes on in a startup, and places particular focus on the questions of technologists, business people and the general public. The stories in Founders at Work are dramatic and funny, and they're about people getting rich. As human-interest stories they will appeal to the same audience that enjoys reading about the Google founders in PEOPLE magazine. For such an audience, these stories should be exceptionally interesting, because they're about the early stages, when the founders were younger and inexperienced. Most readers know startup founders only as confident millionaires. As novices trying to find their way by trial and error, they're more human, and easier for the reader to identify with.
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Founders at Work recounts the early struggles for independence and acceptance of many of modern technology's giants, through personal interviews that are at times hilarious, at times painful, and always inspiring. As human-interest stories they will interest the same audience that enjoys reading about the Google founders in PEOPLE magazine.
Founders at Work recounts the early struggles for independence and acceptance of many of modern technology's giants, through personal interviews. Revealing today's leaders as novices finding their way, the stories are at times hilarious, at times painful, and always inspiring.
Founders at Work recounts the early struggles for independence and acceptance of many of modern technology's giants, through personal interviews that are at times hilarious, at times painful, and always inspiring. As human-interest stories they will interest the same audience that enjoys reading about the Google founders in PEOPLE magazine. These stories are exceptionally interesting, because they're about the early stages, when the founders were younger and inexperienced. Most readers know startup founders only as confident millionaires. As novices trying to find their way by trial and error, they're more human, and easier for the reader to identify with.
Forward.- Author s Introduction.- Interviews: David Heinemeier Hansson, 37 Signals.- Mena Trott, 6 Apart.- Charles Geschke, Adobe.- Steve Wozniak, Apple.- Nolan Bushnell, Atari.- Philip Greenspun, ArsDigita.- Evan Williams, Blogger.com.- Craig Newmark, Craigslist.- Joe Kraus, Excite.- Blake Ross, Firefox.- Caterina Fake, Flickr.- Paul Buchheit, Gmail.- Sabeer Bhatia, Hotmail.- James Hong, HotorNot.- Helen Greiner, iRobot.- Mitch Kapor, Lotus Development.- Arthur Van Hoff, Marimba.- Jeff Taylor, Monster.- Max Levchin, PayPal.- Mike Lazaridis, Research In Motion.- Michael Ellenbogen, Reveal Imaging Technologoes.- James Courier, Tickle.- Steve Kaufer, TripAdvisor.- Paul Graham, Viaweb.- Dan Bricklin, VisiCalc.- Index.- Glossary.- Acknowledgments.
Über den Autor
Jessica Livingston is a founding partner at Y Combinator, a seed-stage venture firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Mountain View, California. She was previously vice president of marketing at investment bank Adams Harkness. In addition to her work with startups at Y Combinator, she organizes Startup School (www.StartupSchool.org). She has a bachelor's degree in English from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
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Founders at Work recounts the early struggles for independence and acceptance of many of modern technology's giants, through personal interviews that are at times hilarious, at times painful, and always inspiring. As human-interest stories they will interest the same audience that enjoys reading about the Google founders in PEOPLE magazine. These stories are exceptionally interesting, because they're about the early stages, when the founders were younger and inexperienced. Most readers know startup founders only as confident millionaires. As novices trying to find their way by trial and error, they're more human, and easier for the reader to identify with.
Founders at Work recounts the early struggles for independence and acceptance of many of modern technology's giants, through personal interviews that are at times hilarious, at times painful, and always inspiring. The book will interest anyone curious about what goes on in a startup, and places particular focus on the questions of technologists, business people and the general public. The stories in Founders at Work are dramatic and funny, and they're about people getting rich. As human-interest stories they will appeal to the same audience that enjoys reading about the Google founders in PEOPLE magazine. For such an audience, these stories should be exceptionally interesting, because they're about the early stages, when the founders were younger and inexperienced. Most readers know startup founders only as confident millionaires. As novices trying to find their way by trial and error, they're more human, and easier for the reader to identify with.
