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Title: The Nudist on the Late Shift : And Other True Tales of Silicon Valley by Po Bronson ISBN: 0-7679-0603-9 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 02 May, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.82 (74 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Interesting insight into the Business side of Silicon Valley
Comment: I enjoyed this book; I liked the way Bronson chose the themes for each Chapter, such as The Enterpreneurs, The Programmers, The Salespeople etc. It did show both how many of the people in Silicon Valley 'live on another planet', and it also showed how they've transformed this planet for many of the rest of us.
I particularly enjoyed the Chapter dedicated to the IPO of Actuate, not just because I'm an Actuate customer, but because until now I hadn't fully understood how IPO's happen, and now I feel I do (that Chapter in isolation would have rated a 5 from me).
Rating: 4
Summary: Now a Good Historical Account
Comment: The economic and cultural situation in the San Francisco area around the turn of the 21st century has been described as being similar to that of the 1850's gold rush in the same area. Now that the boom is over, Po Bronson's book is just as entertaining as Mark Twain's tales of the gold rush days. As another "one who was there", I recognize the heady atmosphere, the excesses that seemed reasonable at the time, the temerity with which a bold few reached out to grab everything they could.
One anecdote early in the book really hits home with me. Bronson mentions an article about Siebel Systems, one of the darling stocks of the 1999-2000 boom. He relates how, after the article first appeared, he received an e-mail from a Siebel employee about how working for the company was ruining his life. When I read the book, I was working for Siebel Systems and its stock was flying high. I laughed at Bronson's story. A year later, working for Siebel had ruined my life, and I left the company in early 2001...
That's just the perspective of one disillusioned employee of one company, but the same story was repeated all throughout Silicon Valley, Silicon Alley, and the rest of the dot-com universe. This book gives you a great picture of life during the boom. For the "after" picture, just look at today's headlines.
Rating: 1
Summary: "Available used & new from $0.69"
Comment: That's what [Amazon.com] tells me when I pull up this book. And that's pretty much all you need to know. Bronson's book (which, in fact, is not a book but rather simply a bound copy of articles you've probably already read before) is like a rapidly-decaying museum piece. More than any other, Bronson is symptomatic of the superficial, star----er writer who glommed on to the Silicon Valley late-90s, Internet-fueled craze as a way of elevating himself from his former persona. [In this case, 'bond salesman.']
Read Michael Lewis' "The New New Thing" instead for a definitive account of the same era. Compared to Lewis, Bronson is typing with boxing gloves on. It's been all downhill since 'Bombardiers.'
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Title: The First $20 Million is Always the Hardest: A Novel by Po Bronson ISBN: 0380816245 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 30 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Bombardiers by Po Bronson ISBN: 0140254501 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: What Should I Do with My Life? by Po Bronson ISBN: 0375507493 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 24 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Silicon Boys : And Their Valley of Dreams by David A. Kaplan ISBN: 0688179061 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 04 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story by Michael Lewis ISBN: 0140296468 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 08 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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