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The brainchild of founder Tim Westergren, Pandora Internet Radio is a Web-based service that provides a unique, personalized music stream to each listener. Utilizing a wealth of information supplied to a database by trained music analysts, Pandora responds to listeners' musical tastes, playing songs that share characteristics with their favorite songs or artists. This title tells the fascinating story of how Westergren's innovative company developed...
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Zappos redefined online shopping when it came on the scene in 1999, founded by Nick Swinmurn and Tony Hsieh. Their savvy approach to customer service and determination to keep their employees happy has resulted in Zappos becoming a multimillion dollar company. This volume is not only an intriguing modern history of an empire, it's a valuable resource for future Internet entrepreneurs.
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In 2003, Swedish businessman Niklas Zennström sent out an email message to his friends, asking them to take a look at a new Web site called Skype.com. With that message, he launched one of the most popular Internet services of the early twenty-first century. Skype revolutionized the way that people communicated by offering free and low-cost phone calls to anywhere in the world through the Internet. In the years since Zennström sent that e-mail message,...
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This fascinating biography tells the story of Steve Jobs, genius pioneer of the digital age, and his role in creating and building Apple, one of the world's most powerful, profitable, and innovative companies. In vivid, detailed chapters, the author describes the evolution of Apple from a start-up in the Jobs family garage to a company that has changed the way we all live, work, communicate, and are entertained today. Readers will enjoy following...
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Netflix started out as a small company, but millions of subscribers later it took down Blockbuster, with only a modern approach to video rental. The story of Netflix is interesting, as is the story of its founder, Reed Hastings. This volume is a must-read for any future Internet entrepreneur, detailing the rise of the company and the many speed bumps it encountered along the way.
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Reid Hoffman enjoys helping people do good things. He started the social network LinkedIn precisely to help people, specifically people in a professional context, form, improve, and make use of their relationships. In fact, the tagline of the company is "Relationships matter." All of Hoffman's actions and decisions are guided by three principles: making the greatest impact for good, valuing relationships, and working toward massive scale. This captivating...
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Born in Huntsville, Alabama, no one expected that Jimmy Wales would go on to create one of the most successful and widely-used Web sites in history: Wikipedia. Wikipedia is the product of a lot of hard work. It had its ups and downs and its failures and successes before becoming the Internet phenomenon it is today. This book details the journey, from the early life of Jimmy Wales through the height of Wikipedia's success.
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Started in Chicago, Illinois, Groupon has expanded to dozens of cities all around the world and has become an Internet sensation. Mason's billion-dollar idea has revolutionized e-commerce. Groupon has taken the good and the bad in stride, using setbacks, challenges, and competition to learn valuable lessons and improve its strategies for continued growth and worldwide expansion. It has revolutionized the ways in which we interact with our local economy,...
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Sometimes in business, success comes not by reinventing the wheel but by simply building a better mousetrap. That's exactly what David Karp did when he founded his microblogging site, Tumblr. This book introduces readers to Karp and follows him from his humble beginnings as a shy kid to the head of one of the most successful tech companies today. He grew his business simply because he believed he could build a simpler, leaner blogging platform that...
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50 million active Twitter users log in to Twitter every single day. 230 million tweets are sent every day. Twitter is one of the most widely-used and well-known social networks that exists. In just 140 characters, people share their political views, jokes, favorite things, and more. With a lot of hard work from Evan Williams, Biz Stone, Jack Dorsey, and many others this Internet phenomenon was able to manifest. Readers explore the lives of the main...
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With over 2,000 employees, 800 million users, and annual revenues of more than $4 billion, it's hard to imagine that Mark Zuckerberg-in his Harvard dorm room-started Facebook less than 10 years ago. This is the astounding story of Zuckerberg's launch of "the Facebook," as it was originally called in 2004, and with it the revolutionizing of business and the way we communicate, and spread messages, throughout the world. This new way of communicating...
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This insightful work combines Jeff Bezos's life story, beginning in 1964 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with the creation of Amazon, in 1995, and its rise as the largest online retailer in the world. Bezos's zeal and tirelessness has seen Amazon through the inevitable ups and downs that come with building a start-up-taking it from a garage and turning it into a worldwide powerhouse. Although Bezos has wide-ranging interests and investments today, Amazon...
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In 2006, an Australian computer programmer and former hacker named Julian Assange launched a website called WikiLeaks that he claimed would change the way governments worked. Assange envisioned the website as a place where people could post secret and confidential documents that would reveal the abuses by governments and corporations perpetrated against ordinary citizens. In less than five years, Assange took WikiLeaks from an obscure site known only...
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The company that is now Google began as a partnership of ideas between two Stanford University graduate students, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, with a shared vision. They both had the confidence and nerve to set out on their own to start up a technology company together. Eric Schmidt was recruited as CEO in 2001 to help guide the company with his management expertise, without changing its exuberant corporate culture. Google has grown from an ambitious...
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