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Books like How the Internet Happened
The best books like How the Internet Happened are The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber, and No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram. How the Internet Happened by Brian McCullough is about technology history, innovation, entrepreneurship. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Walter Isaacson · Science
The Innovators is Walter Isaacson's history of the digital revolution, tracing the development of computers and the internet from Ada Lovelace's conceptualization of programming in the 1840s through the emergence of the modern internet, personal computer, and smartphone.
Shares technology history and innovation with How the Internet Happened.
Read the summary → - Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
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Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
Mike Isaac · Business
Super Pumped is New York Times technology reporter Mike Isaac's account of Uber's rise from a San Francisco startup to a $70 billion company — and of the internal chaos, ethical failures, and leadership battles that nearly destroyed it.
Both dig into silicon valley.
Read the summary → - No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram
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No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram
Sarah Frier · Business
No Filter is Sarah Frier's account of Instagram's founding, its acquisition by Facebook, and the decade-long tension between Instagram's founders and Mark Zuckerberg over what the product should become.
Both dig into silicon valley.
Read the summary → - Chaos: Making a New Science
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James Gleick · Science
Chaos: Making a New Science, published in 1987, tells the story of how a loose network of scientists working across meteorology, mathematics, biology, and physics in the 1960s and 1970s developed chaos theory — the study of systems that are deterministic but unpredictable because tiny differences in initial conditions produce wildly different outcomes.
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
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The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Brad Stone · Business
The Everything Store is Brad Stone's account of Amazon's founding and growth from a book retailer to one of the most powerful companies in the world.
Both dig into entrepreneurship.
Read the summary → - The Power Law
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Sebastian Mallaby · Business
The Power Law is Sebastian Mallaby's history of venture capital, told through the people who built the industry from its roots in postwar military research to its current position as the primary financing mechanism for technology startups worldwide.
Shares innovation and entrepreneurship with How the Internet Happened.
Read the summary → - Americana
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Bhu Srinivasan · History
Americana is Bhu Srinivasan's attempt to tell the history of American capitalism through its defining industries and the entrepreneurs who built them.
Shares innovation and entrepreneurship with How the Internet Happened.
Read the summary → - How We Got to Now
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Steven Johnson · History
How We Got to Now traces six innovations — glass, cold, sound, clean, time, and light — and follows each one through unexpected chains of consequence into the present.
Shares technology history and innovation with How the Internet Happened.
Read the summary → - Disciplined Entrepreneurship
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Bill Aulet · Business
Bill Aulet's Disciplined Entrepreneurship is a structured walkthrough of 24 steps for building a new venture, developed from MIT's entrepreneurship curriculum and Aulet's own experience as a serial entrepreneur.
Shares innovation and entrepreneurship with How the Internet Happened.
Read the summary → - Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Ashlee Vance · Biography
Ashlee Vance's biography of Elon Musk is the most comprehensive account of Musk's life and companies up to 2015, written with Musk's cooperation after an initial refusal and a long negotiation.
Shares innovation and entrepreneurship with How the Internet Happened.
Read the summary → - Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
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Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
Jessica Livingston · Business
Founders at Work is Jessica Livingston's collection of interviews with the founders of some of the most influential technology companies of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Shares technology history and entrepreneurship with How the Internet Happened.
Read the summary → - Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Peter F. Drucker · Business
Innovation and Entrepreneurship is Drucker's systematic treatment of a subject that, in 1985, most people still regarded as the province of lone geniuses and lucky accidents.
Shares innovation and entrepreneurship with How the Internet Happened.
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Books like How the Internet Happened: quick answers
What are the best books like How the Internet Happened?
The best books like How the Internet Happened by Brian McCullough are The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson, Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac, No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram by Sarah Frier, Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with How the Internet Happened, such as technology history, innovation, entrepreneurship.
What should I read after How the Internet Happened?
A natural next read after How the Internet Happened is The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson. Shares technology history and innovation with How the Internet Happened. Other strong choices are Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac, No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram by Sarah Frier, Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick.
What books are similar to How the Internet Happened by Brian McCullough?
How the Internet Happened centers on technology history, innovation, entrepreneurship. Books with a similar feel include The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson, Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac, No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram by Sarah Frier, Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone, The Power Law by Sebastian Mallaby — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
