Book · 2017 · Business & Economics
The Upstarts
How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World
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Go to your local bookstore even better amazon unbound space while you're at it get the collection get the triple energy get the upstarts get the everything stored as an entrepreneur read these because there's so many lessons in them.
Jason Calacanis · This Week in Startups · Sep 2021 Listen at 1:05:40 The best things said about it
Your book the book you wrote in between um amazon and bound and the evidence everything store was called the upstarts.
Why people recommend it
Brad Stone's book The Upstarts offers a detailed examination of the modern technology landscape and the rise of disruptive venture-backed companies like Uber and Airbnb. The text explores the corporate strategies and founder mentalities that shaped these massive platforms, serving as a chronicle of contemporary digital entrepreneurship. On an episode of This Week in Startups, Jason Calacanis recommended that entrepreneurs read Stone's collection of works, which includes this title alongside his other books, emphasizing that listeners would find numerous valuable lessons within them. Later, on The Realignment, host Marshall Kosloff referenced The Upstarts multiple times while introducing Brad Stone as a guest. Kosloff identified Stone as a senior executive editor for global technology at Bloomberg and noted that The Upstarts was the author's notable work focusing on Uber and Airbnb, positioned chronologically between his earlier biography of Jeff Bezos and his subsequent book exploring Amazon's broader expansion. Throughout these podcast appearances, the book was consistently highlighted as a key literary resource for understanding how modern tech giants disrupted traditional industries and transformed the global economy, cementing its reputation as an essential read for anyone interested in the mechanics of modern business creation and corporate evolution.
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Jason Calacanis go to your local bookstore even better amazon unbound space while you're at it get the collection get the t… 1
“go to your local bookstore even better amazon unbound space while you're at it get the collection get the triple energy get the upstarts get the everything stored as an entrepreneur read these because there's so many lessons in them”
Marshall Kosloff your book the book you wrote in between um amazon and bound and the evidence everything store was called th… 2
“so he's the senior executive editor for the global technology at bloomberg but he's also for our purposes author of amazon unbound another book called the upstarts about uber and airbnb and the everything store the original biography of jeff bezos and tail of that amazing company”
“your book the book you wrote in between um amazon and bound and the evidence everything store was called the upstarts”
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“uh you also know him as the author of the everything store jeff bezos in the age of amazon 2013 the upstarts uber airbnb and the battle for the new silicon valley 2017”