Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
by Douglas Rushkoff · 7 Sep 2022 · 205pp · 61,903 words
Survival of the Richest ESCAPE FANTASIES OF THE TECH BILLIONAIRES DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF For Mark Filippi, Michael Nesmith, and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge. Wish you were here. Contents Introduction: Meet The Mindset 1 The Insulation Equation
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assumption that most humans are essentially worthless and unthinkingly self-destructive. Let’s either change them or get away from them, forever. Thus, we get tech billionaires launching electric cars into space —as if this symbolizes something more than one billionaire’s capacity for corporate promotion. And if a few people do
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Investment. The rhetoric of Silicon Valley—whether in the pitch decks of young developers, the talks by TED speakers, or the Joe Rogan interviews with tech billionaires—always bears the same hallmarks as these business plans. Progress. The future. Optimism. Transformation. Winning. But usually these are just euphemisms for conquest, colonization, domination
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and progress. It’s about more than even just growth for growth’s sake. It’s reaching toward something beyond victory itself: total domination. The tech billionaires have already accumulated more wealth than they or their grandchildren could ever spend. Jeff Bezos has a yacht with a helipad that serves as a
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adds their own facts, however contradictory, into the canon. Still, the Great Awakening they hope to ignite bears more than a passing resemblance to the tech billionaire fantasies they believe they are resisting. There’s nothing incremental, no theory of change, no adaptation, and no compromise. Just enthusiastic anticipation of a cleansing
All the Money in the World
by Peter W. Bernstein · 17 Dec 2008 · 538pp · 147,612 words
Michael Dell, America Online’s Steve Case, eBay’s Pierre Omidyar, and Qualcomm’s Irwin Jacobs—all former winners of Ernst & Young awards, all high-tech billionaires who made fortunes on flashy, brainy businesses. Then there are the media mavens—Rupert Murdoch, Barry Diller, David Geffen—whose boldface names appear regularly in
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formidable, one thing’s for sure: While public taste may prove fickle, and new goods and services continually spring up to challenge old ones, low-tech billionaires will always be around. After all, you can’t eat computer chips or hedge funds, and even media moguls need their trash hauled away. 6
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nice, at least in public. Their Twitter spat had touched off an irresistible media frenzy that pitted the pair against each other—a pair of tech billionaires fighting for cosmic domination—a made-for-large-font headline neither wanted. For someone who cultivated his image as meticulously as Bezos, it wasn’t
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Nilekani, the company’s best-known cofounders, were admired as models of social mobility and ethical practice, as well as being among India’s first tech billionaires. It was a throwaway phrase by Nilekani—“Tom, the playing field is being levelled”—that inspired American journalist Thomas Friedman to write The World Is
The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning With the Myth of the Good Billionaire
by Tim Schwab · 13 Nov 2023 · 618pp · 179,407 words
’s grand experiment in philanthropy, we are long overdue for a reappraisal of the world’s most powerful humanitarian, especially as a new generation of tech billionaires begins to follow in his footsteps. Jeff Bezos and his ex-spouse, MacKenzie Scott, have both pledged to give away most of their fortunes, more
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, a company he views as having been an engine of social progress, inspiring a computer revolution. Villanueva told me this view is fairly common among tech billionaires, the idea that “‘We haven’t harmed anyone.’ Regardless, you have to take into account, when you look at folks who have been able to
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.” What Murray did not clearly disclose was that he himself planned to run this new organization. He first secured a promise of $115 million from tech billionaire (and onetime Bill Gates adversary) Larry Ellison to start his new research institute at Harvard. For reasons that are not totally clear, Ellison abandoned the
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billionaires should even exist. All around us, the signs are clearly pointing to gathering distrust in and distaste for oligarchy and the false promises of tech billionaire philanthropists. Look at the Covid-19 pandemic, which exposed how grotesquely inefficient and inequitable our economic system is, prioritizing the needs of the rich over
Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey Into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley
by Corey Pein · 23 Apr 2018 · 282pp · 81,873 words
magazines like Architectural Digest told me that nobody lived in those houses anyway. “The people who own them,” he said, “all have five others.” Some tech billionaires even owned five houses in the same place. Down in Palo Alto, Mark Zuckerberg purchased four properties adjacent to his $7 million five-bedroom home
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not exclusively a coup orchestrated from above with the help of powerful, well-connected hyperlibertarians like Thiel, Patri Friedman, and Trump’s campaign financier, the tech billionaire Robert Mercer. It was also a movement from below, embraced by thousands—and eventually perhaps by millions—of disaffected young people. While the neoreactionaries expounded
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’d been pursuing. I wanted to find someone who’d gotten rich by innovating. I wouldn’t find this person in beer. Brazil’s only tech billionaire is Eduardo Saverin, who got rich because of his lucky decision to put money into Facebook before anyone else. As far as I could tell
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by John Sviokla and Mitch Cohen · 30 Dec 2014 · 252pp · 70,424 words
the software market. Microsoft became known not only for the Windows operating system but also for its consumer electronics and computers. In 2000, the American tech billionaire established the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Gate stepped down as CEO of Microsoft in 2008 to dedicate himself to the foundation. Terry Gou b. 1950
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twentieth century. They all made this a community of staggering wealth and set the standards of how it should be spent. Their contemporary equivalents are tech billionaires, rock musicians, financial manipulators, and pyramid scheme operators. Born out of the alchemical reaction of overlapping booms in oil, railroads, and land in the early
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by Sandra Navidi · 24 Jan 2017 · 831pp · 98,409 words
come into great wealth by building enormously successful companies, sometimes over the span of several generations. Among them are old industrial dynasties, nouveau industrialists, or tech billionaires. Some families consist of fewer than a dozen members, while others encompass hundreds. The priority of family offices is wealth preservation. According to a saying
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and sexist as the rest of the financial industry, as numerous lawsuits have unearthed; especially when fund-raising, women often face misogynistic and inappropriate behavior. Tech billionaires, the history-making “industrialists” of our time, are exclusively male. In the venture capital industry, deep relationships are of utmost importance to source deals and
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