Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age
Categories: Business & Money
Stanford historian Leslie Berlin tells the story of the Silicon Valley generation that, in the 1970s and early 1980s, launched five industries: personal computing, video games, biotechnology, modern venture capital and advanced semiconductor logic. Berlin follows seven pioneers across companies such as Apple, Atari, Genentech and Xerox PARC and the venture firms Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins. She shows how technology moved from Pentagon offices and university labs into everyday life, and how the Valley began building political influence.
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