The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World
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| Rating | : | 4.91 (566 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01HZFB3X0 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 423 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Interwoven among the highlights and lowlights are innovation incubators, dirty tricks, desperation among VC investors to not miss the Next Big Thing, competitors' bright ideas, and the strikingly different personalities of the two companies' young leaders. An Best Book of February 2017: Brad Stone has a gift for unwrapping the mythology around a company's origins and making its actual origins—and growth and flubs and pivot points—far more fascinating than the mythology ever could be. Too many books spotlight a company's wise decisio
In Brad Stone's riveting account of the most radical companies of the new Silicon Valley, we discover how it all happened and what it took to change the world. . Uber and Airbnb have ushered in a new era: redefining neighborhoods, challenging the way governments regulate business, and changing the way we travel.In the spirit of iconic Silicon Valley renegades like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, another generation of entrepreneurs is using technology to upend convention and disrupt entire industries. A look deep inside the new Silicon Valley, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Everything StoreTen years ago, the idea of getting into a stranger's car, or a walking into a stranger's home, would have seemed bizarre and dangerous, but today it's as common as ordering a book online. Led by such visionaries as Travis Kalanick of Uber and Brian Chesky of Airbnb, they are rewriting the rules of business and often sidestepping serious ethical and legal obstacles in the process.The Upstarts is the definitive story of two new titans of business and a dawning age of tenacity, conflict and wealth. These are the upstarts, idiosyncratic founders with limitless drive and an abundance of self-confidence
crazypoet said The Definitive Story of the Sharing Economy, Uber, and Airbnb. Brad Stone has pulled off a rare feat: he’s written the definitive story of two very different companies, Uber and Airbnb, in one book. By interlacing, comparing, and contrasting the two giants of the sharing economy, our insight is heightened and the narrative never drags.The book works on multiple levels: a detailed and fascinating behind the scenes revelations of how of the two biggest, most transformative companies started, grew, and operated; as a business . "Is THIS the sharing economy?" according to Mal Warwick. Many Americans, not to mention millions of people in other countries around the world, may find it difficult to imagine a world without Uber or Airbnb. Yet Uber was founded only in 2009 and Airbnb a year earlier. (Neither company’s success—or, for that matter, the sharing economy as a whole—would have been possible without the iPhone, which Apple introduced in 2007.) As the cover graphic suggests on Brad Stone’s captivating new book, The Upstar. "Great insights into The Rise of Uber and Airbnb" according to Pkras. Uber and Airbnb have radically impacted taxis/car rental, hotels and vacation rentals. If they have their way, they’ll soon be disrupting a whole new set of adjacent local industries, including food delivery, local tours and “experiences.”Business Week’s Brad Stone, author of “The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and The Age of Amazon,” and one of our keynoters, has been tracking both companies and their industry segments from their eme
Brad Stone is senior executive editor of global technology at Bloomberg News and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of . . Hehas covered Silicon Valley for more than 15 years and lives in San Francisco