How We Got Here: A Slightly Irreverent History of Technology and Markets
by Andy Kessler
Publisher: Collins Business 2005
ISBN/ASIN: 0060840978
ISBN-13: 9780060840976
Number of pages: 272
Description:
Best-selling author Andy Kessler ties up the loose ends from his provocative book, Running Money, with this history of breakthrough technology and the markets that funded them.
Expanding on themes first raised in his tour de force, Running Money, Andy Kessler unpacks the entire history of Silicon Valley and Wall Street, from the Industrial Revolution to computers, communications, money, gold and stock markets. These stories cut (by an unscrupulous editor) from the original manuscript were intended as a primer on the ways in which new technologies develop from unprofitable curiosities to essential investments. Indeed, How We Got Here is the book Kessler wishes someone had handed him on his first day as a freshman engineering student at Cornell or on the day he started on Wall Street. This book connects the dots through history to how we got to where we are today.
Download or read it online for free here:
Download link
(PDF, registration required)
Similar books
Public Speaking: Principles and Practiceby Irvah Lester Winter - The Macmillan Company
This book is designed to set forth the main principles of effective platform delivery, and to provide a large body of material for practice. It may be used to form a separate course of study, or a course running parallel with a course in debating.
(13548 views)
Influencing and Persuasion Skillsby MTD Training - BookBoon
In this textbook you'll will learn the key skills so you can win people around to your ideas, influence others on certain decisions and persuade them to take certain a certain course of action all by the way that you communicate with them.
(14309 views)
Effective Communication Skillsby MTD Training - BookBoon
This book introduces the reader to what being an outstanding communicator is all about. Understanding what effective communications actually are, how information is processed by your brain, how to get your point across, how to build rapport, etc.
(22377 views)
The A to Z of Presentationsby Eric Garner - BookBoon
Whether you are giving a presentation to an important client, selling an idea to your board of senior executives, or making a farewell speech to a retiring colleague, this book will help you come across as someone who is knowledgeable and skilled.
(12314 views)