Book Description
collection of interviews with founders of famous technology companies about
what happened in the very earliest days. These people are celebrities now.
What was it like when they were just a couple friends with an idea?
Founders like Steve Wozniak (Apple), Caterina Fake (Flickr), Mitch Kapor
(Lotus), Max Levchin (PayPal), and Sabeer Bhatia (Hotmail) tell you in
their own words about their surprising and often very funny discoveries as
they learned how to build a company.
Where did they get the ideas that made them rich? How did they convince
investors to back them? What went wrong, and how did they recover?
Nearly all technical people have thought of one day starting or working for
a startup. For them, this book is the closest you can come to being a fly
on the wall at a successful startup, to learn how it's done.
But ultimately these interviews are required reading for anyone who wants
to understand business, because startups are business reduced to its
essence. The reason their founders become rich is that startups do what
businesses do--create value--more intensively than almost any other part of
the economy. How? What are the secrets that make successful startups so
insanely productive? Read this book, and let the founders themselves tell
you.
