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You Only Have to Be Right Once

Author : Randall Lane
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698185684
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book You Only Have to Be Right Once written by Randall Lane and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate insider look at the newest titans of tech—and what you can learn from their success In 2007, twenty-one-year old David Karp launched Tumblr, a simple micro-blogging platform, on a whim. By 2012, it had become one of the top ten online destinations, drawing 170 million visitors. By 2013, Yahoo had acquired Tumblr for over $1 billion. Just like that, a kid who hadn’t even earned his high school diploma was worth over a quarter billion dollars. And he’s not the only one . . . Silicon Valley’s newest billionaires represent a unique and unconventional breed of entrepreneur: young, bold, and taking the world by storm with their extreme speed, insatiable hunger, and progressive leadership. These whiz kids (and, to be fair, a few adults) have the hottest companies in the world. They are all turning just one brilliant insight or hook into money at a rate never before seen in human history—creating companies that, even with no revenue, garner insane valuations. With unique insider access to the world’s most influential and wealthy entrepreneurs, Forbes has dug in to find what these super-entrepreneurs say about their own success. This book, introduced, edited, and updated by Forbes editor Randall Lane, is the first comprehensive look at who these instant tech billionaires are and how they achieved their quick wins. With sixteen illuminating pieces, including two never-before published features, we get behind-the-scenes examinations of the founders of Spotify, Airbnb, Tumblr, Twitter, and more, including: Elon Musk: The billionaire founder of Paypal, electric carmaker Tesla, and private space company SpaceX. His extreme ambition is matched by his preternatural engineering mind; no wonder he was the model for Robert Downey Jr.’s portrayal of Iron Man. Evan Spiegel: The twenty-three-year old declined a $3 billion cash offer from Mark Zuckerberg, after making the mountain come to Mohammed (Snapchat’s HQ is in Los Angeles) —an unheard of request from a young gun to one of the biggest players in Silicon Valley. The story of Snapchat’s origin is even wilder than Facebook’s, but Spiegel’s ability to parlay infamy and popularity into revenue is still up in the air, even as Snapchat’s valuation continues to grow. Alex Karp: An eccentric philosopher with almost no tech background turned a Peter Thiel backed venture, Palantir, into a data-mining champion, with clients like the NSA, the FBI, and the CIA. Amid heated privacy concerns, Karp continues to grow Palantir like crazy, to $196 million in funding and an estimated $1 billion in contracts in 2014. You Only Have to Be Right Once is the definitive collection of everything we can learn from these incredible game changers and what their next moves spell for the future of business.

Tech Billionaires

Author : Lewis D. Solomon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351486810
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Tech Billionaires written by Lewis D. Solomon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first decade of the twenty-first century a new wave of thinking has emerged from tech billionaires that may shape the way private capital gets invested to tackle social problems. These entrepreneurs broke the business mold in the 1980s and 1990s and are now trying to break the traditional pattern of philanthropy pioneered by Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, Sr. some one hundred years ago. Combining billions of dollars of their personal capital with new ideas, cutting-edge businesslike techniques, media and marketing savvy, the tech benefactors profiled in this book are attacking some of the globe's most intractable societal problems. In trying to make a difference in the world, these new philanthropists, dubbed "philanthrocapitalists" by rhe author seek to break down traditional barriers dividing business, charity, and government. As a result of the rapid wealth creation in recent years, the world now boasts 1,125 billionaires, many of whom are self-made, according to the Forbes' 2008 list, including Bill Gates, Pierre Omidyar, Jeffrey Skoll, Stepehn Case, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and more. Their massive wealth has created new philanthropic challenges. Imaginative giving by the new billionaires is beginning to transform philanthropy in terms of timing, involvement, strategy, and tactics. How this development impacts society as a whole is the subject of Lewis Solomon's book. As the author notes, the traditional categories of business and philanthropy may no longer serve to meet the challenge of social problems. In the twenty-first century the tools and resources used to solve societal problems will be far more varied and mixed than previously. We now see interesting partnerships and new ways of thinking. The divide between profit and social good will narrow. If successful in using their money in innovative ways, government or for-profit business could scale up the catalytic efforts of the new philanthropists. This volume is a proactive, innovative guide to a new era, not just a new technique of monetary support.

The Tech Billionaires Collection

Author : Austin Mathis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book The Tech Billionaires Collection written by Austin Mathis and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did companies like Facebook, Paypal, Oracle, and Google get started? Who built the internet as we know it now? What are their stories? How did these tech giants turn innovation into a global technological empire? You'll learn it all and more with The Tech Billionaires Collection! This exciting new collection gives you five biographies in a single bundle for one low price. Through their hardships, discoveries, and ultimately their success, these self-made men are the pinnacle of modern technology and have risen to become the top billionaires of our time. What sets them apart from everyone else? And who, exactly, are they? Included in this bundle are the biographies of some of the most fascinating men in modern technology: Mark Zuckerberg The Facebook Billionaire Jack Ma The Man Who Created Alibaba Peter Thiel The Contrarian Billionaire Larry Ellison The Founder of Oracle Larry Page and Sergey Brin The Google Billionaire Founders Did you know Google was originally a research project at Stanford University? That Oracle got it's name from the CIA? Or why Facebook's logo is blue? The men behind them do! Learn their secrets to success in this fantastic biography collection that doesn't just give you background into who they are but also explains how they think and why that drove them to achieve such great accomplishments! In an industry where dreams are made (and many fail), these five tech billionaires have risen to the top. Learn about their lives and their dreams in this biography collection!

Royally Flushed

Author : Ainsley St Claire
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book Royally Flushed written by Ainsley St Claire and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Staying with him will be dangerous... They call him Billionaire, Environmentalist, and Playboy. I call him Boss. I try to keep it professional, I want to resist him, but the pull is too strong. A bomb threat, a ransacked apartment, mysterious warnings, all telling me to leave him alone. Yes, staying will be dangerous, but leaving him will destroy me. Royally Flushed is a standalone romance with a happy ending. It's second in Tech Billionaire Series. It takes place in the same world as the Billionaire Venture Capitalist and Clear Holiday and includes many of the favorite characters from the other books.

Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

Author : Douglas Rushkoff
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393881075
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (938 download)

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Download or read book Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires written by Douglas Rushkoff and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to leave us all behind. Five mysterious billionaires summoned Douglas Rushkoff to a desert resort for a private talk. The topic? How to survive The Event: the societal catastrophe they know is coming. Rushkoff came to understand that these men were under the influence of The Mindset, a Silicon Valley–style certainty that they can break the laws of physics, economics, and morality to escape a disaster of their own making—as long as they have enough money and the right technology. In Survival of the Richest, Rushkoff traces the origins of The Mindset in science and technology through its current expression in missions to Mars, island bunkers, and the Metaverse. This mind-blowing work of social analysis shows us how to transcend the landscape The Mindset created—a world alive with algorithms and intelligences actively rewarding our most selfish tendencies—and rediscover community, mutual aid, and human interdependency. Instead of changing the people, he argues, we can change the program.

Sold Out

Author : Michelle Malkin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501115952
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Sold Out written by Michelle Malkin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The syndicated columnist teams up with an expert on the effect of foreign labor on technology workers to challenge popular misconceptions about foreign labor and reveal corrupt practices that are undermining America's high-skill workbase,"--NoveList.

Showdown

Author : Ainsley St Claire
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Showdown written by Ainsley St Claire and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-31 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She's like nothing he ever imagined, but might just be what he needs.LillyI'm an accidental nanny.It was only supposed to be a weekend and then all hell broke loose.How could I walk away. His two young girls needed me.Nate the handsome and brooding CEO was lost and lonely.I couldn't help myself and took a bite of the forbidden fruit. Now I crave more.Being with Nate could unravel all we've built. But being without him and his girls make my life incomplete.NateMy wife was murdered and to cope I work.I never thought I'd find love again, but it's right here under my roof.Lilly is beautiful and sweet, but she's completely off-limits.It's bad enough I can't stop fantasizing about her.It's worse than that-I didn't stop at a kiss and now I can't stay away. There are so many things that could go wrong. Now, I'm screwed.Showdown is a standalone romantic suspense novel with a happy ending. It's the fifth and final book in the Billionaire Tech Series featuring the characters from the Venture Capitalist and Clear Security series.

Sleight of Hand

Author : Ainsley St Claire
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book Sleight of Hand written by Ainsley St Claire and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-24 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The night was magical, the morning after wasn't.I was celebrating selling my company when I noticed him enter the bar. Landon knew just what to say and one thing led to another. It was supposed to be a onetime thing, but reality slapped me in the face the next morning. He arrived to sign the purchase papers, and now I was committed to work for him for an entire decade. When I can't make my code work, his patience runs thin. Someone is sabotaging us, and if we can't figure it out, I'll have no company, no money, and no future.That night Tinsley offered something I couldn't resist. Now she works for me, and I have to put that night behind us. The project isn't getting finished, and the competition is nipping at our heels. My firm put a lot of money into this, and if I can't get it sorted out we lose and it affects a lot of people. I thought I was going to ruin her for other men when this was over, but she may ruin me first.Competition in the sector is fierce. Mutual attraction and a looming deadline collide in a volatile mix when Landon and Tinsley are forced together. Will missing coworkers, paparazzi, paternity suits, poker tournaments, and other distractions all conspire to threaten their future?Sleight of Hand is a standalone romantic suspense novel with a happy ending. It's the third book in the Billionaire Tech Series featuring the characters from the Venture Capitalist and Clear Security series.

House of Cards

Author : Ainsley St Claire
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book House of Cards written by Ainsley St Claire and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She thinks she needs to put her family before herself. He's determined to prove her wrong. Maggie is the heiress to the Reinhardt Department Store fortune. Her father died and the board of the company expect Alex to run the company but they've never had a nonfamily member run the company. The board has a simple solution-she needs to put the family first and marry Alex. Forget the fact that she isn't his type and she loves someone else. Jonathan Best has been in love with Maggie Reinhardt since high school. Everything he's done has been for her including escaping from his family's clutches and opening a 5-star hotel and casino on the Las Vegas strip. He can't forget their last time together and how after so long it was so right. So, after picking up the pieces he formulates his plan to stop the wedding and that when things get really interesting.House of Cards is a standalone romantic suspense novel with a happy ending. It's the first in the Billionaire Tech Series featuring the team members from the Venture Capitalist and Clear Security series

The Death of the Artist

Author : William Deresiewicz
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1250125529
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Death of the Artist written by William Deresiewicz and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deeply researched warning about how the digital economy threatens artists' lives and work—the music, writing, and visual art that sustain our souls and societies—from an award-winning essayist and critic There are two stories you hear about earning a living as an artist in the digital age. One comes from Silicon Valley. There's never been a better time to be an artist, it goes. If you've got a laptop, you've got a recording studio. If you've got an iPhone, you've got a movie camera. And if production is cheap, distribution is free: it's called the Internet. Everyone's an artist; just tap your creativity and put your stuff out there. The other comes from artists themselves. Sure, it goes, you can put your stuff out there, but who's going to pay you for it? Everyone is not an artist. Making art takes years of dedication, and that requires a means of support. If things don't change, a lot of art will cease to be sustainable. So which account is true? Since people are still making a living as artists today, how are they managing to do it? William Deresiewicz, a leading critic of the arts and of contemporary culture, set out to answer those questions. Based on interviews with artists of all kinds, The Death of the Artist argues that we are in the midst of an epochal transformation. If artists were artisans in the Renaissance, bohemians in the nineteenth century, and professionals in the twentieth, a new paradigm is emerging in the digital age, one that is changing our fundamental ideas about the nature of art and the role of the artist in society.

Future World Order

Author : Maha Hosain Aziz
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781091096196
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (961 download)

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Download or read book Future World Order written by Maha Hosain Aziz and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FUTURE WORLD ORDER is a "must-read", according to both Dr Ian Bremmer (author of Us Vs Them and Founder of Eurasia Group) and Kishore Mahbubani (author of Has the West Lost It?). Dr Nouriel Roubini (NYU Professor and CEO of Roubini Macro Associates) says its author Dr Maha Hosain Aziz has "vision" and is a "global thinker to watch". In her book, NYU Professor, Blogger & Consultant Dr Maha Hosain Aziz predicts the world will be defined by a unique global legitimacy crisis in the coming years. Norms in geopolitics, politics, economics and society will continue to be challenged, yet there will be no consensus. If it is not a US-led world anymore, who's in charge of the international system? If democracy is weakening, is there a better system to replace it? If globalization is failing some, is populism the answer? If liberal values are in decline, will xenophobia dominate? Dr Aziz argues that tech has already worsened all aspects of this unique global legitimacy crisis. But she also offers hope that in the future tech can be creatively leveraged to be part of the cure. FUTURE WORLD ORDER (2019) is Professor Aziz's first book. It aims to serve as a guide for all audiences - from the silent generation to post-millennials - to make better sense of the world at this sensitive global turning point. And it encourages readers to be more activist in shaping their future. 15% of Professor Aziz's book profits are going to her late brother's memorial fund, the Abid Aziz Fund, which supports charity Peace & Sport's Syrian refugee youth project in Jordan's Za'atari camp. Follow her on LinkedIn, Medium, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Cover by comics creator and illustrator Karen Rubins (karenrubins.com)

The Accidental Billionaires

Author : Ben Mezrich
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385532199
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book The Accidental Billionaires written by Ben Mezrich and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-07-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER “The Social Network, the much anticipated movie…adapted from Ben Mezrich’s book The Accidental Billionaires.” —The New York Times Best friends Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg had spent many lonely nights looking for a way to stand out among Harvard University’s elite, competitive, and accomplished student body. Then, in 2003, Zuckerberg hacked into Harvard’s computers, crashed the campus network, almost got himself expelled, and was inspired to create Facebook, the social networking site that has since revolutionized communication around the world. With Saverin’s funding their tiny start-up went from dorm room to Silicon Valley. But conflicting ideas about Facebook’s future transformed the friends into enemies. Soon, the undergraduate exuberance that marked their collaboration turned into out-and-out warfare as it fell prey to the adult world of venture capitalists, big money, and lawyers.

Billionaire Blend

Author : Cleo Coyle
Publisher : Berkley
ISBN 13 : 0425252914
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Billionaire Blend written by Cleo Coyle and published by Berkley. This book was released on 2013 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When a car bomb nearly kills tech whiz Eric Thorner, Clare comes to his aid and receives a priceless thank you. Not only does the billionaire buy her a barista's dream espresso machine, he hires her for an extraordinary project: creating the world's most expensive coffee blend. The police quickly arrest Eric's alleged attacker, yet death continues to surround the unlucky mogul, leading Clare to question whether a fatal fall and another lethal mishap are premeditated murders or merely freak accidents. Clare's boyfriend, NYPD detective Mike Quinn, has a theory of his own--one Clare refuses to believe. Meanwhile, Eric jets Clare around the world on a head-spinning search for the very best coffee, and Clare gets to know his world--a mesmerizing circle of money with rivalries that could easily have turned deadly. But is this charming young CEO truly marked for termination? Or is he the one making a killing?"--

The New Patriarchs of Digital Capitalism

Author : Ben Little
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000397637
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The New Patriarchs of Digital Capitalism written by Ben Little and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-23 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an original critique of the billionaire founders of US West Coast tech companies, addressing their collective power, influence, and ideology, their group dynamics, and the role they play in the wider sociocultural and political formations of digital capitalism. Interrogating not only the founders’ political and economic ambitions, but also how their corporations are omnipresent in our everyday lives, the authors provide robust evidence that a specific kind of patriarchal power has emerged as digital capitalism’s mode of command. The ‘New Patriarchs’ examined over the course of the book include: Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, Elon Musk of Tesla, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, and Peter Thiel. We also include Sheryl Sandberg. The book analyses how these (mostly) men legitimate their rapidly acquired power, tying a novel kind of socially awkward but ‘visionary’ masculinity to exotic forms of shareholding. Drawing on a ten million word digital concordance, the authors intervene in feminist debates on patriarchy, masculinity, and postfeminism, locating the power of the founders as emanating from a specifically racialised structure of oppression tied to imaginaries of the American frontier, the patriarchal household, and settler colonialism. This is an important interdisciplinary contribution suitable for researchers and students across Digital Media, Media and Communication, and Gender and Cultural Studies.

An Ed-Tech Tragedy?

Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9231006118
Total Pages : 653 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book An Ed-Tech Tragedy? written by UNESCO and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-08 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

You Only Have to Be Right Once

Author : Randall Lane
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1591847966
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (918 download)

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Download or read book You Only Have to Be Right Once written by Randall Lane and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE ULTIMATE INSIDER LOOK AT THE NEWEST TITANS OF TECH— AND WHAT YOU CAN LEARN FROM THEIR SUCCESS. Silicon Valley’s newest billionaires represent a unique and unconventional breed of entrepreneur: young, bold, and taking the world by storm with their extreme speed, insatiable hunger, and progressive leadership. They are all turning just one brilliant insight or hook into money at a rate never before seen in human history—creating companies that, even with no revenue, garner insane valuations. With unique insider access to the world’s most influential and wealthy entrepreneurs, Forbes has dug in to find what these superentrepreneurs say about their own success. This book, introduced, edited, and updated by Forbes editor Randall Lane, is the first comprehensive look at who these instant tech billionaires are and how they achieved their quick wins. With sixteen illuminating pieces, we get behind-the-scenes examinations of the founders of Tesla, Spotify, Airbnb, Tumblr, Twitter, and more, including: ·ELON MUSK: The billionaire founder of Paypal, electric carmaker Tesla, and private space company SpaceX. His extreme ambition is matched by his preternatural engineering mind; no wonder he was the model for Robert Downey Jr.’s portrayal of Iron Man. ·EVAN SPIEGEL: In 2013, the twenty-three year-old founder of Snapchat declined a $3 billion cash offer from Mark Zuckerberg. Today, Snapchat is valued at $16 billion. The story of Snapchat’s origin is even wilder than Facebook’s, but Spiegel’s ability to parlay infamy and popularity into revenue is still up in the air. ·ALEX KARP: An eccentric philosopher with almost no tech background turned a Peter Thiel–backed venture, Palantir, into a data-mining champion, with clients like the NSA, the FBI, and the CIA. Amid heated privacy concerns, Karp continues to grow Palantir like crazy, to over $1.5 billion in funding and an estimated $1 billion in contracts in 2014. You Only Have to Be Right Once is the definitive collection of everything we can learn from these incredible game changers and what their next moves spell for the future of business.

The End of Reality

Author : Jonathan Taplin
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1541703170
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book The End of Reality written by Jonathan Taplin and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An instant bestseller! A brilliant takedown and exposé of the great con job of the twenty-first century—the metaverse, crypto, space travel, transhumanism—being sold by four billionaires (Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Andreesen, Elon Musk), leading to the degeneration and bankruptcy of our society. At a time when the crises of income inequality, climate, and democracy are compounding to create epic wealth disparity and the prospect of a second American civil war, four billionaires are hyping schemes that are designed to divert our attention away from issues that really matter. Each scheme—the metaverse, cryptocurrency, space travel, and transhumanism—is an existential threat in moral, political, and economic terms. In The End of Reality¸ Jonathan Taplin provides perceptive insight into the personal backgrounds and cultural power of these billionaires—Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Marc Andreesen (“The Four”) —and shows how their tech monopolies have brought middle-class wage stagnation, the hollowing out of many American towns, a radical increase in income inequality, and unbounded public acrimony. Meanwhile, the enormous amount of taxpayer money to be funneled into the dystopian ventures of "The Four," the benefits of which will accrue to billionaires, exacerbate these disturbing trends. The End of Reality is both scathing critique and reform agenda that replaces the warped worldview of "The Four" with a vision of regenerative economics that seeks to build a sustainable society with healthy growth and full employment.