Burn Book
A Tech Love Story
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Kara Swisher
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From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead.
“Swisher, the bad-ass journalist and OG chronicler of Silicon Valley…takes no prisoners in this highly readable look at the evolution of the digital world…Bawdy, brash, and compulsively thought-provoking, just like its author, Burn Book sizzles” (Booklist, starred review).
Part memoir, part history, Burn Book is a necessary chronicle of tech’s most powerful players. From “the queen of all media” (Walt Mossberg, The Wall Street Journal), this is the inside story we’ve all been waiting for about modern Silicon Valley and the biggest boom in wealth creation in the history of the world.
When tech titans crowed that they would “move fast and break things,” Kara Swisher was moving faster and breaking news. While covering the explosion of the digital sector in the early 1990s, she developed a long track record of digging up and reporting the facts about this new world order. Her consistent scoops drove one CEO to accuse her of “listening in the heating ducts” and prompted Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg to once observe: “It is a constant joke in the Valley when people write memos for them to say, ‘I hope Kara never sees this.’”
While still in college, Swisher got her start at The Washington Post, where she became one of the few people in journalism interested in covering the nascent Internet. She went on to work for The Wall Street Journal, joining with Walt Mossberg to start the groundbreaking D: All Things Digital conference, as well as pioneering tech news sites.
Swisher has interviewed everyone who matters in tech over three decades, right when they presided over an explosion of world-changing innovation that has both helped and hurt our world. Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Sheryl Sandberg, Bob Iger, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Meg Whitman, Peter Thiel, Sam Altman, and Mark Zuckerberg are just a few whom Swisher made sweat—figuratively and, in Zuckerberg’s case, literally.
Despite the damage she chronicles, Swisher remains optimistic about tech’s potential to help solve problems and not just create them. She calls upon the industry to make better, more thoughtful choices, even as a new set of powerful AI tools are poised to change the world yet again. At its heart, this book is a love story to, for, and about tech from someone who knows it better than anyone.©2024 Kara Swisher (P)2024 Simon & Schuster Audio
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Gesamt5 out of 5 stars
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- Alex C.
- 20.03.2025
fantastic summary of how we got here in the tech world
I think I need to re-read this immediately. Kara Swisher is such a great journalist, and I truly admire her work. This book is a fantastic summary of how we got here in the tech world. It explains very clearly the challenges and risks of not taking technology as seriously as we should.
Beyond its tech focus, I think this is a fascinating book for any woman (yes, woman) navigating the corporate/tech world. I felt incredibly inspired by her. "Be prepared, be prepared, be prepared." "Don't make a mistake, don't make a mistake, don't make a mistake." Those mantras felt so familiar, because these have been my own in my professional life.
I also completely agree with her perspective on work and fulfillment. If, someone tells me, “Don’t work too much. When you’re old, you won’t remember your job, you’ll regret spending so much time working,” I know that won’t apply to me. I will remember work, because it has fulfilled me, it has been fun, and it has made me feel like I’m doing something meaningful with my little life.
One thing I particularly appreciated was how, even though Swisher has many children (and yes, she is very privileged), she never framed her career and motherhood as an either/or choice, but rather as a yes, and... approach. Loved that!
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Gesamt3 out of 5 stars
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- AC
- 27.05.2024
Kara knew it all
This is a story about Kara and how she knew it all - before everyone else - how the internet will impact business and society. And yet - Mr Trump didn’t invite her - Kara! - to the meeting in the Oval Office along all the other famous IT and Internet nerds and CEOs she knows so well. The likes of Elon M, Marc Z, etc. This book is driven by envy and her grudge towards Elon.
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Gesamt3 out of 5 stars
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- Ben
- 07.03.2024
Was that all of the fuel? More candle than bonfire
A rather short book on the history of the Silicon Valley, which was covered by KS since the early 90s. For people who listen to her Podcasts or who are more or less informed about the topic there isn't really anything new in there. After listening to it I couldn't but wonder: with all the years Kara Swisher spent "in the trenches" close-up with everything that was going on in the Silicon Valley, this book should have tripple the length and tripple the depth that it has.
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- Petronella
- 14.07.2024
Sorry I bought it, can't return it
Waste of money, all me me me me me and inflammatory, just crap negative energy
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- Anonymous
- 02.02.2025
Author is a narcissist
I didn’t enjoy this book. The author was a narcissist and the contents were very tedious.
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