The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World

ONE OF AMAZON'S BEST BOOKS OF 2017A look deep inside the new Silicon Valley, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Everything Store

Ten years ago, the idea of getting into a stranger's car, or a walking into a stranger's home, would have seemed bizarre and dangerous, but today it's as common as ordering a book online. Uber and Airbnb have ushered in a new era: redefining neighborhoods, challenging the way governments regulate business, and changing the way we travel.

In the spirit of iconic Silicon Valley renegades like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, another generation of entrepreneurs is using technology to upend convention and disrupt entire industries. These are the upstarts, idiosyncratic founders with limitless drive and an abundance of self-confidence. Led by such visionaries as Travis Kalanick of Uber and Brian Chesky of Airbnb, they are rewriting the rules of business and often sidestepping serious ethical and legal obstacles in the process.

The Upstarts is the definitive story of two new titans of business and a dawning age of tenacity, conflict and wealth. In Brad Stone's riveting account of the most radical companies of the new Silicon Valley, we discover how it all happened and what it took to change the world.

• The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
• Wild Ride: Inside Uber's Quest for World Domination
• The Airbnb Story: How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions . . . and Created Plenty of Controversy
• The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
• Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built
• Netflixed: The Epic Battle for America's Eyeballs
• The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
• Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
• Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
• eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work