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The Silicon Boys and Their Valley of Dreams (Paperback, 1st Perennial ed): David A. Kaplan The Silicon Boys and Their Valley of Dreams (Paperback, 1st Perennial ed)
David A. Kaplan
R579 R504 Discovery Miles 5 040 Save R75 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In "the best book to date on the subject" (San Francisco Chronicle), prize-winning journalist David A. Kaplan brings to life the culture and history of Silicon Valley. The symbol of high-tech genius and ineffable wealth, a place that competes with Hollywood and Washington in the zeitgeist of success and excess, the Valley is the epicenter of the New Economy. Depending on yesterday's stock market close, roughly a quartermillion Siliconillionaires live in the Valley. And they're building megalo-mansions and buying Lamborghinis as fast as they can. Combining reportorial insight and biting wit, The Silicon Boys tells the unforgettable story of dreams and greed, ambition and luck, that has become the Valley of the Dollars.

Mine's Bigger - The Extraordinary Tale of the World's Greatest Sailboat and the Silicon Valley Tycoon Who Built it... Mine's Bigger - The Extraordinary Tale of the World's Greatest Sailboat and the Silicon Valley Tycoon Who Built it (Paperback)
David A. Kaplan
R536 R470 Discovery Miles 4 700 Save R66 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Tom Perkins, the venture capitalist behind such companies as Google, Genentech, Amazon, and AOL, doesn't do things halfway. When he collected vintage cars, for instance, he had the world's largest collection of Bugatti automobiles. And when he decided to pursue a lifelong dream and build a sailing yacht, he went the whole nine yards: He decided it would be the world's largest yacht - big enough to fit Noah's Ark on its deck. He wanted it to sail at a record 26 knots, under unprecedented physical forces. And, he thought, having built this marine wonder, why not use it to try to smash the 155-year-old world sailing record from New York to San Francisco around Cape Horn? So Perkins built 'the perfect yacht' - as long as a football field, 42 feet wide, and with three masts so tall they will just fit under the great suspension bridges of the world. The Maltese Falcon, as he dubbed his ship, uses technology no clipper skipper ever imagined - a rig with no sheets, no stays, no halyards - just free-standing, rotating carbon fiber masts with 18 sails surging freely in the wind. At $130 million, it is a technological marvel - as complex as the man himself.

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