Follow seven people through Silicon Valley's formative decades to see how workers, researchers, universities, and investors built new industries together, and what that growth cost.
6 parts, about 24 minutes to read.
Berlin shows new capital bringing growth and control pressures. Kupor explains how preferred approval rights can constrain new share issues or a sale beyond the balance of board seats.
1177 B.C.Eric H. Cline
1929Andrew Ross Sorkin
A History of WarfareJohn Keegan
A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley PowellDonald Worster
A secret history of the IRAEd Moloney
AfghanistanThomas Barfield
Alive: The Story of the Andes SurvivorsPiers Paul Read
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East TerrorStephen Kinzer
American SphinxJoseph J. Ellis
An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963Robert Dallek
At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIAGeorge Tenet, Bill Harlow
Beyond the Hundredth MeridianWallace Stegner