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The Nudist On The Lateshift: and Other Tales of Silicon Valley

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Entrepreneurs and tech wizards, immigrants and investors, dreamers and visionaries are heading West to seek their fortune.Their Mecca is Silicon Valley – where one person can achieve so much with just initiative, talent and a good idea. Meet David Filo, co-founder of Yahoo and worth over $500 million, who still sleeps under his desk one night a week. Meet the 26 year-old who is already on his fifth start-up venture. Meet the man with the biggest brain in the world. Meet the nudist who works the late shift.

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Weight 0.231 kg
Dimensions 1.8 × 13.5 × 21.6 cm
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Paperback
Language

Pages

288
Publisher

Year Published

2016-8-22
Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

1911215418
About The Author

Po Bronson has written for Wired, Rolling Stone and the New York Times Magazine. He is the author of What Should I do With My Life?, Why Do I Love These People? and The First $20 Million is Always the Hardest. He also co-writes with Ashley Merryman. Together they have written the books Nurture Shock: Why Everything We Thought About Children is Wrong and Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing; they have also won nine national awards for their reporting on the science of human development, including the PEN USA Award for Literary Journalism and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Award for Outstanding Journalism.
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My choice for the beach… The Nudist on the Late Shift is the riveting tale of California's Silicon Valley
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A remarkable piece of reportage – the finest evocation of Silicon Valley to emerge so far

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