How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars - The Snapchat Story
ISBN : 9780753557594
Would you turn down a billion-dollar offer from Zuckerberg ? When Evan Spiegel was just twenty-three, the brash CEO of the social network Snapchat walked away from a billion-dollar offer from Facebook. Was this madness, or genius ? In How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars, Stanford classmate Billy Gallagher recounts the rise of one of Silicon Valley's hottest start-ups, with a juicy insider account packed with the drama and excess of Snapchat's early days. This is the definitive story of its exhilarating ascent - from a frat boy fantasy to a multi-billion dollar start-up that has changed how we communicate forever.
Chronicles
ISBN : 9780241307205
The return of the best-selling, award-winning economist extraordinaire With the same powerful evidence, and range of reference, as his global bestseller Capital in the Twenty-First Century - and in columns of 700 words, rather than 700 pages - Chronicles sets out Thomas Piketty's analysis of the financial crisis, what has happened since and where we should go from here. Tackling a wider range of subjects than in Capital , from productivity in Britain to Barack Obama, it comprises the very best of his writing for Liberation from the past ten years. Now, translated into English for the first time, it will further cement Piketty's reputation as the world's
Barbarians At the Gate
ISBN : 9780099545835
The battle for the control of RJR Nabisco in the Autumn of 1988, which became the largest and most dramatic corporate takeover in American history, sent shock-waves through the international business world and became a symbol of the greed, excess and egotism of the eighties. This title recounts this two-month battle.