№ 01
“Probably the best overall book about the early days of computing and the internet.” source
Co-founder and CEO of Stripe
Patrick Collison
Patrick Collison is the co-founder and CEO of Stripe, the payments company he started with his brother John in 2010. A well-known reader, he keeps a public bookshelf on his website plus a separate page on Silicon Valley history. Picks below come from those two pages.
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№ 02
“The origins and cultural context of Fairchild and Intel.” source
№ 03
“The definitive history of Genentech.” source
№ 04
“The definitive book about Bell Labs. (There should be more...)” source
№ 05
“The Lockheed Martin facility behind the U-2, SR-71, etc.” source
№ 06
Patrick Collison's Silicon Valley History page; on the building of Windows NT source
№ 07
Flagged green (particularly great) on Patrick Collison's bookshelf source
№ 08
Flagged green (particularly great) on Patrick Collison's bookshelf source
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