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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Download or read book Champagne Brunch written by Ainsley St Claire and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-16 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If your best friend was arrested for murder? Would you lie or tell the truth? Axel I don't want complicated, drama, or serious in the women I date. That was until I met her. Mia's different-she's beautiful, smart, and knows baseball better than I do. Her close friend is arrested for murder and life becomes complicated. Chaos engulfs her. Drama colors all parts of her life. And, maybe serious wouldn't be so bad. Mia Life's not as easy for me as people think. Sure I'm CEO of a Fortune 50 company I founded. I've got a group of girlfriends who'd doing anything for me. But I can't meet a decent guy to save my life until I met him. Axel makes my toes curl and my heart melt. But the timing may just be wrong. Champagne Brunch is a romance with a happy ending and the first book in the The Stiletto Sisters series. This series is about strong women who need strong men. This book can be read as a stand alone that highlights the women seen in the Venture Capitalist Series and the Tech Billionaire series.
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
Download or read book You Only Have To Be Right Once written by Randall Lane and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 256 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 are 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 turn just one brilliant insight into money at a rate never before seen - creating companies that, even with no revenue, garner insane valuations. You Only Have to Be Right Once is the first comprehensive look at the people behind the biggest companies in tech. It behind-the-scenes examinations of billionaire tech titans including Tesla's Elon Musk, Instagram's Kevin Systrom, Airbnb's Brian Chesky and Snapchat co-founder Evan Spiegel - and reveals what these super-entrepreneurs say about their own success. Introduced, edited and updated by Forbes editor Randall Lane, this 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.
Download or read book Millionaires for the Month written by Stacy McAnulty and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How would you spend five million dollars in 30 days? A billionaire's wallet, a bizarre challenge, and an unlikely friendship send two kids on a wild adventure. From the author of The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl. Felix Rannells and Benji Porter were never supposed to be field-trip partners. Felix is a rule follower. Benji is a rule bender. They're not friends. And they don't have anything to talk about. Until . . . They find a wallet. A wallet that belongs to tech billionaire Laura Friendly. They're totally going to return it-but not before Benji "borrows" twenty dollars to buy hot dogs. Because twenty dollars is like a penny to a billionaire, right? But a penny has value. A penny doubled every day for thirty days is $5,368,709.12! So that's exactly how much money Laura Friendly challenges Felix and Benji to spend. They have thirty days. They can't tell anyone. And there are LOTS of other rules. But if they succeed, they each get ten million dollars to spend however they want. Challenge accepted! They rent cool cars, go to Disney World, buy pizza for the whole school-and that's just the beginning! But money can't buy everything or fix every problem. And spending it isn't always as easy and fun as they thought it would be. . . . As smart as it is entertaining, Millionaires for the Month is a thought-provoking story about friendship, privilege, and the value of a penny.
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.
Download or read book Hard Drive written by Marcella Swann and published by Tech Titans. This book was released on 2018-07-14 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can I tame the Bad Boy Playboy of Silicon Valley? Damian Black: He's gorgeous and knows it. A titan of the tech industry and not yet 30. Models and starlets are his for the taking. A billionaire. And so very good at being bad. I tell myself I don't want him even though I do, in the worst way. But I've got a secret that could ruin everything. Gigi Stevens: She's brainy and beautiful and has a tongue as sharp as an ice pick. I'm the face of a multi-billion-dollar tech company and I've got a rep. I'm used to shallow and superficial but that's not her. That's not her at all. And it throws me. Is something real worth the risk? There's only one way to find out. It's a dangerous dance: Will she tame the Bad Boy or will she be the one who's conquered? Hard Drive is 40,000-word stand-alone novella with no cheating, no cliffhangers, and a beautiful HEA. The book is intended for readers 18 years of age and older.
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 216 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.
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.
Download or read book Bit Flip written by Mike Trigg and published by SparkPress. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining the corporate intrigue of Joseph Finder, the satirical cultural critique of Dave Eggers, and the domestic drama of Laura Dave, Bit Flip is a fast-paced contemporary thriller that delivers an authentic insider’s view of the corrupting influences of greed, entitlement, and vanity in technology start-ups. Tech executive Sam Hughes came to Silicon Valley to “make the world a better place.” He’s just not sure he’s doing that anymore. And when an onstage meltdown sends him into a professional tailspin, he suddenly sees the culture of the Bay Area’s tech bubble in a new light. Just as Sam’s wondering if his start-up career and marriage might both be over at fortysomething, an inadvertent discovery pulls him back into his former company, where he begins to unravel the insidious schemes of the founder and venture investors. Driven by his desire for redemption, Sam discovers a conspiracy of fraud, blackmail, and manipulation that leads to tragic outcomes—threatening to destroy not only the company but also his own moral compass. Entangled in a web of complicity, how far will Sam go to achieve his dreams of entrepreneurial success?
Download or read book Baby Magnet written by TS Layne and published by Shady Layne Media. This book was released on 2022-03-06 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Owen Corporate Raider, Ruthless, Devil in a Three-Piece Suit. As CFO of Steele Conglomerate, I’m all this and worse. My only salvation is a nightly confessional at the altar of Lisa Liu’s bar. So when some d-bag leaves her high and dry, facing single motherhood – I step in—find my absolution. But Lisa doesn’t need rescuing and doesn’t want a Knight in Shining Armor. She wants all the things I can never give her - commitment, marriage, a family. But the more time I spend with Lisa and her daughter Polly, the more I want a shot at heaven. Lisa They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and that road runs right through Owen Donahue – my biggest mistake I’ll never regret. He wasn't supposed to be anything more than my favorite regular. But now that he’s pursuing me with the same relentless determination he reserves for corporate takeovers and offering me the moon, I keep saying yes when I should be saying no. I can never tell Owen what happened the night our drinking game went too far – because the best thing that ever happened to me is the one thing that will make him walk away. **TS Layne is the Alter Ego of USA Today Bestselling Author Tessa Layne. TS Writes Bad Boys & Billionaires. Tessa Writes Alpha Cowboys & Hot Heroes.**
Download or read book Billion Dollar Catch written by Olivia Hayle and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: House-sitting a mansion for the summer sounds easy, right? Until my rich, single dad neighbor catches me in a compromising position. Hint: I'd just taken off my bikini top. He's billionaire Ethan Carter, a living legend in the tech world and father to two adorable little girls. Oh, and he's the kind of ruggedly handsome that belongs in a calendar with firefighters and puppies. "Welcome to the neighborhood," he says, grinning. The catch? He can afford to live here-I can't. Differences in income and age make anything more unthinkable, not to mention he's coming off a terrible divorce and has no time to himself. We agree we can't be anything more, even as neighborly drinks turn into not-so-neighborly kisses, and kisses turn into... well. Let's just say he finds creative ways for us to use my kitchen counter. He doesn't know if he's ready to trust again. I don't know if I'm ready to give my heart. But as summer ends, we might not have choice in the matter.
Download or read book Seeing Silicon Valley written by Mary Beth Meehan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-05-12 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Also published in French as Visages de la Silicon Valley.
