{"id":35482,"date":"2018-05-03T12:25:25","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T16:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/?p=35482"},"modified":"2018-10-17T09:49:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T13:49:16","slug":"ucba-may2018-botm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2018\/05\/ucba-may2018-botm\/","title":{"rendered":"UCBA Library’s Book of the Month for May"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Christian Boyles<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Book<\/a>

How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/b>HD9696.8.U64 S6343 2018<\/p><\/div>\n

About the book<\/b><\/p>\n

The improbable and exhilarating story of the rise of Snapchat from a frat boy fantasy to a multi-billion dollar internet unicorn that has dramatically changed the way we communicate.\u00a0\u00a0 In 2013 Evan Spiegel, the brash CEO of the social network Snapchat, and his co-founder Bobby Murphy stunned the press when they walked away from a three-billion-dollar offer from Facebook: how could an app teenagers use to text dirty photos dream of a higher valuation? Was this hubris, or genius?\u00a0 In\u00a0How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars, tech journalist Billy Gallagher takes us inside the rise of one of Silicon Valley’s hottest start-ups. Snapchat developed from a simple wish for disappearing pictures as Stanford junior Reggie Brown nursed regrets about photos he had sent. After an epic feud between best friends, Brown lost his stake in the company, while Spiegel has gone on to make a name for himself as a visionary–if ruthless–CEO worth billions, linked to celebrities like Taylor Swift and his wife, Miranda Kerr.\u00a0 A fellow Stanford undergrad and fraternity brother of the company’s founding trio, Gallagher has covered Snapchat from the start. He brings unique access to a company Bloomberg Business called “a cipher in the Silicon Valley technology community.” Gallagher offers insight into challenges Snapchat faces as it transitions from a\u00a0playful app to one of the tech industry’s preeminent public companies. In the tradition of great business narratives, How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars offers the definitive account of a company whose goal is no less than to remake the future of entertainment.<\/p>\n

Is it checked out? Don\u2019t worry about it. Here are some other titles on the subject.<\/b><\/p>\n

Brotopia : Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley<\/b><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<\/b>HD6060.5.U5 C52 2018<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

For women in tech, Silicon Valley is not a fantasyland of unicorns, virtual reality rainbows, and 3D-printed lollipops, where millions of dollars grow on trees. It’s a “Brotopia,” where men hold all the cards and make all the rules. Vastly outnumbered, women face toxic workplaces rife with discrimination and sexual harassment, where investors take meetings in hot tubs and network at sex parties.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In this powerful expos\u00e9, Bloomberg TV journalist Emily Chang reveals how Silicon Valley got so sexist despite its utopian ideals, why bro culture endures despite decades of companies claiming the moral high ground (Don’t Be Evil! Connect the World!)–and how women are finally starting to speak out and fight back.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Drawing on her deep network of Silicon Valley insiders, Chang opens the boardroom doors of male-dominated venture capital firms like\u00a0Kleiner\u00a0Perkins, the subject of Ellen\u00a0Pao’s\u00a0high-profile gender discrimination lawsuit, and Sequoia, where a partner once famously said they “won’t lower their standards” just to hire women. Silicon Valley’s aggressive, misogynistic, work-at-all costs culture has shut women out of the greatest wealth creation in the history of the world. It’s time to break up the boys’ club. Emily Chang shows us how to fix this toxic culture–to bring down\u00a0Brotopia, once and for all.<\/p>\n

Wild Ride: Inside Uber\u2019s Quest for Global Domination<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<\/b>HE5620.R53 L37 2017<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

In your pocket is something amazing: a quick and easy way to summon a total stranger who will take you anywhere you\u2019d like. In your hands is something equally amazing: the untold story of Uber\u2019s meteoric rise, and the massive ambitions of its larger-than-life founder and CEO.\u00a0<\/b>Before Travis\u00a0Kalanick\u00a0became famous as the public face of Uber, he was a scrappy, rough-edged, loose-lipped entrepreneur. And even after taking Uber from the germ of an idea to a $69 billion global transportation behemoth, he still describes his company as a start-up. Like other Silicon Valley icons such as Steve Jobs and Elon Musk, he\u2019s always focused on the next disruptive innovation and the next world to conquer.\u00a0\u00a0Both Uber and\u00a0Kalanick\u00a0have acquired a reputation for being combative, relentless, and iron-fisted against competitors. They\u2019ve inspired both admiration and loathing as they\u2019ve flouted government regulators, thrown the taxi industry into a tailspin, and stirred controversy over possible exploitation of drivers. They\u2019ve even reshaped the deeply ingrained consumer behavior of not accepting a ride from a stranger\u2014against the childhood warnings from everyone\u2019s parents.\u202fUber has made headlines thanks to its eye-popping valuations and swift expansion around the world. But this book is the first account of how Uber really became the giant it is today, and how it plans to conquer the future.<\/p>\n

Silicon Valley<\/b><\/a>\u00a0| Streaming Film<\/b><\/p>\n

American Experience, TV’s most-watched history series, brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today. The collection includes a number of great episodes from the series, including American Experience\u202fSilicon\u202f<\/b>Valley.<\/b>\u00a0In 1957, decades before Steve Jobs dreamed up Apple or Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook, a group of eight brilliant young men defected from the Shockley Semiconductor Company in order to start their own transistor business. Their leader was 29-year-old Robert Noyce, a physicist with a brilliant mind and the affability of a born\u00a0salesman who would co-invent the microchip — an essential component of nearly all modern electronics today, including computers, motor vehicles, cell phones and household appliances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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