In the first full-scale portrait of this fabled high-tech corner of California, an award-winning Newsweek culture writer traces the sky-rocket rise of Silicon Valley from 1938, when Bill Hewlett and David Packard started in a Palo Alto garage, to the wired corporate "campuses" of today, where young billionaires confront "The Prince of Darkness" (Bill Gates) and "Elvis" himself, Larry Ellison. We see Steve Jobs evolve from prodigy to parish to elder statesman, observe the influence of venture capitalists such as John Doerr, and watch a new generation of electronic alchemists turn megabytes into megabucks at the head of companies like Netscape and Yahoo Less
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