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Books like Where Wizards Stay Up Late

Where Wizards Stay Up Late by Katie Hafner & Matthew Lyon is about internet history, computer networking, innovation. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.

  1. The Innovator's Dilemma
    The Innovator's Dilemma

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    The Innovator's Dilemma

    Clayton M. Christensen · Business

    Christensen's argument, published in 1997, is deceptively simple: the very practices that make companies excellent at serving their current customers — listening carefully, investing in proven technologies, targeting the most profitable segments — are precisely what causes them to miss disruptive innovations.

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  2. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
    Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

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    Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

    John Carreyrou · Business

    Bad Blood is Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou's account of Theranos, the blood-testing startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes that claimed its proprietary technology could run hundreds of diagnostic tests from a single finger-prick of blood.

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  3. American Prometheus
    American Prometheus

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    American Prometheus

    Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin · Biography

    Kai Bird and Martin J.

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  4. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
    Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

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    Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

    Peter Thiel · Business

    Zero to One began as notes from a Stanford course Thiel taught on startups in 2012, assembled into a book with co-author Blake Masters.

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  5. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
    1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

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    1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

    Charles C. Mann · History

    Charles Mann's 1491 sets out to correct a widespread misconception: that the Americas before Columbus were a mostly empty wilderness populated by small, isolated bands of hunter-gatherers living in gentle harmony with an untouched nature.

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  6. 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
    1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

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    1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

    Charles C. Mann · History

    Where 1491 ends, 1493 begins.

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