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03286aam a2200397Mi 4500 001 1C71CD10482211E79202AAAADAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170603010044 008 161109t20172017nyu e 000 0deng 020 $a 1501147056 020 $a 9781501147050 040 $a AU@ $b eng $e rda $c AU@ $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d SILO 043 $a n-us-ca 082 04 $a 306.0979 100 1 $a Wolfe, Alexandra, $e author. 245 10 $a Valley of the gods : $b a Silicon Valley story / $c Alexandra Wolfe. 250 $a Export edition. 260 $a New York : $b Simon & Schuster, $c 2017. 300 $a 261 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a Each year, young people from around the world go to Silicon Valley to hatch an idea, start a company, strike it rich, and become powerful and famous. In The Valley of the Gods, Wolfe follows three of these upstarts who have "stopped out" of college and real life to live and work in Silicon Valley in the hopes of becoming the next Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk. No one has yet documented the battle for the brightest kids, kids whose goals are no less than making billions of dollars-and the fight they wage in turn to make it there. They embody an American cultural transformation: A move away from the East Coast hierarchy of Ivy Leagues and country clubs toward the startup life and a new social order. Meet the billionaires who go to training clubs for thirty-minute "body slams" designed to fit in with the start-up schedule; attend parties where people devour peanut butter-and-jelly sushi rolls; and date and seduce in a romantic culture in which thick glasses, baggy jeans, and a t-shirt is the costume of any sex symbol. Through Wolfe's eyes, we discover how they date and marry, how they dress and live, how they plot and dream, and how they have created a business world and an economic order that has made us all devotees of them. A blistering, brilliant, and hysterical examination of this new ruling class, The Valley of the Gods presents tomorrow's strange new normal where the only outward signs of tech success are laptops and ideas. 650 0 $a Entrepreneurship $z Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County) $z Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County) 650 0 $a New business enterprises $z Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County) $z Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County) 650 0 $a High technology industries $z Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County) $z Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County) 650 0 $a Technological innovations $z Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County) $z Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County) 651 0 $a Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.) $x Social life and customs $y 21st century. 650 7 $a Entrepreneurship. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00912787 650 7 $a High technology industries. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00956428 650 7 $a Manners and customs. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01007815 650 7 $a New business enterprises. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01036825 650 7 $a Technological innovations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01145002 651 7 $a California $z Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01316612 648 7 $a 2000-2099 $2 fast 941 $a 1 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20170603012131.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1C71CD10482211E79202AAAADAD10320 994 $a C0 $b JIDInitiate Another SILO Locator Search