Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
Kara Swisher covered Silicon Valley from the first browser wars through the age of Musk and Zuckerberg, and Burn Book is her memoir of what she saw. She traces her own path from The Washington Post to All Things D, Recode, and her podcasts, along the way sketching close encounters with Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Sheryl Sandberg, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk. She is affectionate about the early web and blistering about what the industry became once scale and money took over. Swisher writes about her own family, her illness, and her politics with the same directness she brings to founders. The book doubles as a first person history of a business that reshaped the world.
What you might want to know about Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
The questions readers send us most often, answered without spoilers.
The most connected tech journalist of the era settles scores with the founders she covered for thirty years.
It is Swisher's own memoir, and she has spent the 2024 press cycle discussing it on Pivot, On with Kara Swisher, and every major outlet as the definitive first person account of her tech reporting career.
It has plenty of scenes with named founders, but Swisher is also making an argument about power, money, and what the industry chose to become.
Burn Book: A Tech Love Story was written by Kara Swisher, published in 2024 by Simon and Schuster.
Burn Book: A Tech Love Story is 320 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Burn Book: A Tech Love Story takes most readers 5 to 7 hours to finish.
Burn Book: A Tech Love Story is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
