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Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
Its genesis is a largely obvious, mostly unremarkable blog post—not even four hundred words long—that outed a little-known technology investor as homosexual.
Ryan Holiday • Conspiracy: A True Story of Power, Sex, and a Billionaire's Secret Plot to Destroy a Media Empire
What made his free-range access especially remarkable was the culture of Silicon Valley—despite the superficial pizza-and-foosball looseness, the rival tribes inventing the digital future were manic, competitive, prone to extreme paranoia.
Doug Menuez • Fearless Genius: The Digital Revolution in Silicon Valley 1985-2000
It was Brin’s mathematic calculations on those possible 500 million variables that identified the important pages.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
As Lars later told Steven Levy in In the Plex, “We sort of underestimated what we could do.”)
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
Harpers.
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
Larry Page and Sergey Brin had figured out how to mine that knowledge before the information retrieval establishment and commercial search engines even realized that it existed.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Larry was an engineer’s engineer,