The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story - Softcover

Lewis, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340766999 ISBN 13: 9780340766996

Verlag: Hodder Paperback, 2000

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*The classic New York Times Bestseller*

'Hugely enjoyable...it reads like a novel, a fantasy tale of rags and riches that happens to be true' Sunday Times

'A superb book... Lewis makes Silicon Valley as thrilling and intelligible as he made Wall Street in his best-selling Liar's Poker' Time

'A fascinating journey into the Wild West of American capitalism' Daily Telegraph
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In the last years of the millennium, Michael Lewis sets out to find the world's most important technology entrepreneur, the man who embodies the spirit of the coming age. He finds him in Jim Clark, the billionaire who founded Netscape and Silicon Graphics and who now aims to turn the healthcare industry on its head with his latest billion-dollar project.

Lewis accompanies Clark on the maiden voyage of his vast yacht and, on the sometimes hazardous journey, takes the reader on the ride of a lifetime through a landscape of geeks and billionaires. Through every brilliant anecdote and funny character sketch, Michael Lewis allows us an inside look at the world of the super-rich, whilst drawing a map of free enterprise in the twenty-first century.
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From the author of the #1 bestseller THE BIG SHORT and the original business classic LIAR'S POKER comes the definitive 21st-century business story.

'A superb book. . . . Lewis makes Silicon Valley as thrilling and intelligible as he made Wall Street in his best-selling Liar's Poker.' Time

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Michael Lewis is a former banker who worked at Salamon Brothers in the height of Eighties boom. He writes regularly as a journalist and is the author of several books, including the international bestseller, LIAR'S POKER.

Michael Lewis was born in New Orleans and educated at Princeton University and the London School of Economics. He has written several books including the international bestseller, Liar's Poker, widely considered the book that defined Wall Street during the 1980s. Lewis is contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and also writes for Vanity Fair and Portfolio magazine. He is married with three children.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Hodder Paperback
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0340766999
• ISBN 13: 9780340766996
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 432
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar