AMONG AMAZON’S BEST BOOKS OF 2017 A look deep inside the new Silicon Valley, from the brand new York Times bestselling writer of The Everything Shop

A decade ago, the thought of getting into a stranger’s car, or a walking into a stranger’s house, would have seemed bizarre and harmful, but today it’s as common as ordering a reserve online. Uber and Airbnb possess ushered in a new period: redefining neighborhoods, challenging the way government authorities regulate business, and changing just how we travel.

about The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, as well as the Killer Businesses of the brand new Silicon Valley Are Changing the Globe

In the spirit of iconic Silicon Valley renegades like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, another generation of entrepreneurs is using technology to upend convention and disrupt entire industries. These are the upstarts, idiosyncratic founders with endless drive and a good amount of self-confidence. Led by such visionaries as Travis Kalanick of Uber and Brian Chesky of Airbnb, they are rewriting the rules of business and often sidestepping serious ethical and legal hurdles in the process.

The Upstarts may be the definitive story of two new titans of business and a dawning age of tenacity, conflict and wealth. In Brad Stone’s riveting accounts of the very most radical companies of the new Silicon Valley, we learn how it all occurred and what it had taken to improve the world.