Emmanuel Maggiori, "Siliconned: How the tech industry solves fake problems, hoards idle workers, and makes doomed bets with other people's m"
English | ISBN: 1838337253 | 2024 | 228 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1838337253 | 2024 | 228 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
A start-up wastes a billion dollars making videos nobody wants to watch. A city rushes to build landing pads for flightless air taxi prototypes. Tech giants hire thousands of techies for fake projects to stop them working for rivals.
The tech industry has a tendency to go crazy. In Siliconned, industry insider Emmanuel Maggiori decodes tech’s hysteria and explains why we all pay the price for it.
You’ll discover:
How tech investment became a blind hunt for pipe dreams, unicorns, and explosive growth;
How shady incentives reward tech investors for burning cash;
How governments and central banks pour fuel on the fire;
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