A pretty interesting read but already way out of date by 2012! It helped me understand and appreciate why Google is as evil as they are, despite their stance against it. I fear for the world where everything private is online ready to be hacked. Google as a company *does not have the security ...
Well written and very interesting for the behind the scenes view of Y Combinator as well as a number of startups going through their program. I found the specifics of how the variety of companies profiled came up with their ideas and moved them forward to be interesting. I also learned from the d...
At the height of his fame Thomas Alva Edison was hailed as “the Napoleon of invention” and blazed in the public imagination as a virtual demigod. Newspapers proclaimed his genius in glowing personal profiles and quipped that “the doctor has been called” because the great man “has not invented any...
The Man Who Defeated Darkness. The Dean of Inventors. The Man Who Struck the Magic Spark. The Greatest Single Benefactor of the Race. The Archdeacon of the World. The Greatest Citizen of the World. Flattering, yes, but such honors were those bestowed upon a has-been, a statue for a museum. In his...