Troublemakers - How a Generation of Silicon Valley Upstarts Invented the Future
By Leslie Berlin

**THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE MONTH**and THE GRIPPING TALE OF THE EARLY FRONTIER DAYS OF SILICON VALLEY FROM ACCLAIMED HISTORIAN LESLIE BERLIN.and 'The book is compellingand as it maps out the building of the Valley, the challenges its early tech pioneers faced, as well as highlighting those who reached dizzying success only to suffer as the dot com bubble burst.'and Financial Timesand Kaleidoscopic, ambitious, and brilliant, the bookand draws on a dazzling cast of charactersand to chart the rise of the five industries that have come to define technology today and, collectively, to remake the world.'and Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Googleand and Executive Chairman of Alphabet, Inc.Leslie Berlin'sand previous work has been acclaimed byand theand New York Times:and 'so engagingly narrated that you don't realize how much business and technology you are learning along the way.'Between 1968 and 1976, five landmark industries that shaped the modern world were launched within 30 miles of each other: personal computing, video games, biotechnology, modern venture capital and advanced semi-conductor logic.and The dominant players in many of those industries - firms likeand Appleand andand Inteland - had also been launched at the same time. During those early days of Silicon Valley, the firstand ARPANETand transmission (now known as the Internet) came into a Stanford lab, universities began licensing innovations to businesses, and the Silicon Valley tech community began to develop their lobbying clout.and Now, for the first time, the stories of the men and women who changed the world during these pivotal years are brought to life in rich detail by respected Silicon Valley historianand Leslie Berlin.Berlinand shines a light on theand wild frontier days of Silicon Valley where the old rules were broken,and revealingand how the modern tech world was built and empires were forged.and Troublemakersand is a compelling story of the upstarts of Silicon Valley that will appeal to fans of HBO'sand Silicon Valleyand and Walter Isaacson's biography ofand Steve Jobs.and Further praise forand Troublemakers: Leslie Berlin combines the keen observations of an historian withand gorgeous writing and riveting storytelling to write the landmark book on the Valley.and The interwoven lives of wonderfully iconoclastic characters bring the formative years of the Valley to life with sheer brilliance.and Troublemakersand is a must-readand for anyone hoping to understand America's tech capital.'Julia Flynn Siler,and New York Timesand bestselling author ofand The House of Mondavi Leslie Berlin has done it again. Following on her richly informative biography of Intel co-founder Robert Noyce,and The Man Behind the Microchip, Berlin now brings us a definitive account of Silicon Valley's “breakthrough years in the 1970s.and Troublemakersand recounts the fascinating careers of seven little-known but enormously impactful players who shaped the Valley's unique high-tech ecosystem. As entertaining as it is authoritative,and Troublemakersand is required reading for anyone seeking to understand how the tech revolution took root in the San Francisco Bay Area and eventually transformed the entire planet's way of life.'David M. Kennedy, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History Emeritus at Stanford University, winner of the Pulitzer Prize