{"product_id":"valley-of-the-gods-alexandra-wolfe-9781476778952","title":"Valley of the Gods: A Silicon Valley Story","description":"\u003cb\u003eReporter Alexandra Wolfe's biting but admiring story of Silicon Valley, and the men and women whose hubris and ambition are changing the world.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEach year, young people from around the world go to Silicon Valley to hatch an idea, start a company, strike it rich, and become powerful and famous. In \"a jauntily paced anthropological look at Northern California's techtopia\" (\u003ci\u003eBloomberg Businessweek\u003c\/i\u003e), reporter and columnist for \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal \u003c\/i\u003eAlexandra Wolfe follows three of these upstarts who have \"stopped out\" of college and real life in the hopes of becoming the next Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMeet the billionaires who go to training clubs for thirty-minute \"body slams\" designed to fit in with the start-up schedule; attend parties where people devour peanut butter-and-jelly sushi rolls; and date and seduce in a romantic culture in which thick glasses, baggy jeans, and a t-shirt is the costume of any sex symbol (and where a jacket and tie symbolize mediocrity). Through Wolfe's eyes, we discover how they date and marry, how they dress and live, how they plot and dream, and how they have created a business world and an economic order that has made us all devotees of them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn her blistering and hysterical examination of this new ruling class\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eWolfe \"offers a revealing peek inside the privilege, power, and profligacy of Silicon Valley\" (\u003ci\u003eTown \u0026amp; Country\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003ci\u003eValley of the Gods\u003c\/i\u003e \"captures the absurdity of this brave new world, pierces the hype, but also conveys the dreams and the passions that can shape a world's economy\" (\u003ci\u003eUSA TODAY\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alexandra Wolfe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1476778957\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781476778952\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/23\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.90d","brand":"Alexandra Wolfe","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43985704517887,"sku":"9781476778952","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9c6f2b1a-218f-4169-9cee-009b712b01f0.jpg?v=1683279075","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/valley-of-the-gods-alexandra-wolfe-9781476778952","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}