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He then took a tour and surreptitiously jotted down the names of each tenant, in order to send them all a discount for switching to WeWork.
Reeves Wiedeman • Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
Clive Thompson • The Miserable Lives of Cyborg Truck Drivers
“a better world,”
R. Paul Herman • The HIP Investor
It was a realization similar to that made by U.S. entrepreneurs following the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Iron Curtain. Projections of a massive burgeoning of trade between the West and the Communist bloc came to little, for those newly opened nations were producing virtually nothing of interest to highly developed nations and la
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He went on to rethink modern architecture from a biological perspective and later publicly broke with the environmental movement over nuclear power and GMO food.
John Markoff • Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
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
where water was mined
Kevin Emerson • Last Day on Mars (Chronicle of the Dark Star Book 1)
chasing after the products and people that strive for excellence.