Episode · Big Technology Podcast · 2020-09-23
Alex Kantrowitz & Roy Bahat: books mentioned on Big Technology Podcast (Sep 2020)
Why Venture Capitalists Are Mad, With Bloomberg Beta Venture Capitalist Roy Bahat
Venture capitalists, founders, and others in the tech industry are feeling pretty raw these days. Once admired as upstarts fighting the status quo, they now feel under siege, under attack for the negative things their products do without being appreciated for how they improve our lives.
Roy Bahat recommended What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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What Technology Wants
What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly is a book exploring the evolution of technology, viewing it as a vast, living system with its own independent drive and trajectory.
Recommended“And the Kevin Kelly book on this, What Technology Wants, is amazing. Right. And that's your number one recommendation on your Amazon book list. Actually, just check. It is my number one recommendation on my Amazon book list.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Bowling Alone
“And I remember in December of 2016, we got a group together. We called it Bowling Together. And this was a time when like every group of tech was the Putnam book.”