Rarely has one economy asserted itself as swiftly--and as aggressively--as the entity we now
know as Silicon Valley. Built with a seemingly permanent culture of reinvention Silicon Valley
does not fight change it embraces it and now powers the American economy and global
innovation.So how did this omnipotent and ever-morphing place come to be? It was not by
planning. It was like many an empire before it part luck part timing and part ambition. And
part pure unbridled genius...Drawing on over two hundred in-depth interviews VALLEY OF GENIUS
takes readers from the dawn of the personal computer and the internet through the heyday of
the web up to the very moment when our current technological reality was invented. The book
interweaves stories of invention and betrayal overnight success and underground exploits to
tell the story of Silicon Valley like it has never been told before. These are the stories that
Valley insiders tell each other: the tall tales that are all improbably true.
