Fearless Genius: The Digital Revolution in Silicon Valley 1985-2000
The origins of the current great surge, the fifth since the end of the eighteenth century, dates back to 1971 when the first microprocessor was developed by Intel, a company founded three years earlier by Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore[46]. Thanks to the integration of all the key components of a computer on a single chip, the microprocessor would g
... See moreNicolas Colin • Hedge: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age
Technology is changing one of the most powerful forces in shaping society: ambition. What the most ambitious people choose to do with their lives has a profound impact on society, the economy and culture. It’s changing, fast.First, that digital technology is the most recent in a series of ‘technologies of ambition’ that have enabled ambitious peopl... See more
Medium • Technology entrepreneurship and the disruption of ambition
On the other end of the spectrum were kids like Larry Page, who would come in and say, “Here’s what I think I can do.” And his proposals were crazy. He’d come into the office and talk about doing something with space tethers or solar kites.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
The less-famous history of an ultra-famous icon captures one person’s evolution toward this balance. During Steve Jobs’s first stint at Apple, he called his loonshot group working on the Mac “pirates” or “artists” (he saw himself, of course, as the ultimate pirate-artist). Jobs dismissed the group working on the Apple II franchise as “regular Navy.
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