All the Money in the World
by Peter W. Bernstein · 17 Dec 2008 · 538pp · 147,612 words
arts-and-crafts fair and pony club outings. Not for Woodside the Manhattan power breakfast: Tech tycoons and venture capitalists such as John Doerr frequent Buck’s of Woodside, a funky diner on Woodside Road with kitschy art plastered over the walls and hanging from the ceiling. Even though the latest model sports
Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
by Howard Rheingold · 24 Dec 2011
room on the twenty-seventh floor of Tokyo’s Sanno Park Tower felt like the capital of a world, the way dotcom deal making at Buck’s restaurant in Woodside, California, felt in 1999 or the way Sony Headquarters felt in 1989. Silent, marble- floored elevators the size of most companies’ waiting rooms
Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley (As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom)
by Adam Fisher · 9 Jul 2018 · 611pp · 188,732 words
, MacAskill founded and ran a couple of well-regarded dot-com companies. Jamis MacNiven is the quintessential Silicon Valley bon vivant. As the owner of Buck’s Restaurant in Woodside, California—a favored haunt of the Valley’s deal-making class—MacNiven has had a ringside seat on the Valley’s history: He
Netflixed: The Epic Battle for America's Eyeballs
by Gina Keating · 10 Oct 2012 · 347pp · 91,318 words
public relations and customer acquisition, as she had done with Lotus 1-2-3 software and for Sidekick. The initial company meetings took place at Buck’s Restaurant in Woodside or the Hobee’s restaurant in Cupertino, and then in a dingy conference room in the Best Western in Scotts Valley. The new
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
by Jessica Livingston · 14 Aug 2008 · 468pp · 233,091 words
there.” So we got all this attention and were able to raise funding on that story. Then we had the famous Buck’s beaming—at Buck’s restaurant in Woodside, which is sort of the home away from home for many VCs. Our first round of financing was actually transferred to us via
How to Be the Startup Hero: A Guide and Textbook for Entrepreneurs and Aspiring Entrepreneurs
by Tim Draper · 18 Dec 2017 · 302pp · 95,965 words
and, knowing that I have to be at Hero City at 3 pm, an Uber arrives at 2:20 pm to pick me up from Buck’s Restaurant in Woodside to make what it calculates is a 40-minute drive. Figure out how your business can anticipate the needs of your customer. No
The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley
by Jimmy Soni · 22 Feb 2022 · 505pp · 161,581 words
with Nokia Ventures, and he wanted a big, splashy event to trumpet the deal—and demo the team’s breakthrough beaming technology. The team chose Buck’s of Woodside for the event. Buck’s—whose kitschy decor included porcelain cowboy boots, an authentic Russian cosmonaut suit, and a scaled-down Statue of Liberty
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, Tom Pytel, Russel Simmons, Luke Nosek; (front row) is Yu Pan, Lauri Schultheis, Ken Howery, Matt Bogumill, and David Jaques. Courtesy of Russel Simmons At Buck’s Restaurant in Woodside, Confinity launched its inaugural product: a service to beam money between the infrared ports on PalmPilots. The product helped them secure venture funding
The Monk and the Riddle: The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur
by Randy Komisar · 15 Mar 2000 · 385pp · 48,143 words
Lenny, the pitchmen of the Internet era. Here, or in a couple of restaurants in the same rustic strip mall. This is my office. (Forget Buck's Restaurant in next-door Woodside. That's where venture capitalists prefer to meet supplicants and huddle around deals under a giant painting of Roy Rogers on
Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption
by Ben Mezrich · 20 May 2019 · 304pp · 91,566 words
Valley’s royalty congregated, sharing innovations over scrambled eggs, chai lattes, and french fries. The Oasis might not have been quite as famous as nearby Buck’s of Woodside, where PayPal was first demoed and a VC was once pitched something called Yahoo!, but the burger joint and beer garden around the corner
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
by Roger McNamee · 1 Jan 2019 · 382pp · 105,819 words
, who, for the better part of a year, has spent several hours a week helping me organize the ideas at the foundation of this book. Buck’s of Woodside provided the setting for every one of those meetings, once again playing its role as a place where ideas become real. Thank you to