Fisher, in choosing the quotes and stacking them as if they represent the conversations taking place at a group therapy session, is creating the narrative through context. With little narrative support the book is entirely made up of individual quotations grouped and stacked around the story of one Silicon Valley venture or another.Īt first this gives the impression that the author played more the role of researcher and curator than traditional author. This book is “genius” on a number of fronts. Read it to discover the stories that Valley insiders tell each other: the tall tales that are all, improbably, true. It interweaves accounts of invention and betrayal, overnight success and underground exploits, to tell the story of Silicon Valley like it has never been told before. And part pure, unbridled genius.ĭrawing on over two hundred in-depth interviews, VALLEY OF GENIUS takes readers from the dawn of the personal computer and the internet, through the heyday of the web, up to the very moment when our current technological reality was invented. It was, like many an empire before it, part luck, part timing, and part ambition. So how did this omnipotent and ever-morphing place come to be? It was not by planning. Built with a seemingly permanent culture of reinvention, Silicon Valley does not fight change it embraces it, and now powers the American economy and global innovation. Rarely has one economy asserted itself as swiftly-and as aggressively-as the entity we now know as Silicon Valley. It will take us all back to our roots in the counterculture, and will remind us of the true nature of the innovation process, before we tried to tame it with slogans and buzzwords." - Po Bronson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nudist on the Late Shift and NurtureshockĪ candid, colorful, and comprehensive oral history that reveals the secrets of Silicon Valley - from the origins of Apple and Atari to the present day clashes of Google and Facebook, and all the start-ups and disruptions that happened along the way.
"This is the most important book on Silicon Valley I've read in two decades.
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