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Books like Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe by Roger McNamee is about technology, social media, democracy. 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.
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Shoshana Zuboff · History
Shoshana Zuboff spent years researching what she calls surveillance capitalism — a new economic logic in which human experience is turned into raw material for prediction products that are sold to businesses wanting to influence behavior.
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.
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.
Read the summary → - 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.
Read the summary → - Liar's Poker
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Michael Lewis · Business
Liar's Poker is Michael Lewis's account of his years as a bond salesman at Salomon Brothers in the 1980s, the decade when Wall Street stopped being a gentleman's club and became something closer to a casino.
Read the summary → - 100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them
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100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them
Christopher Mayer · Business
Christopher Mayer built this book on research conducted earlier by Thomas Phelps, whose 1972 book 100 to 1 in the Stock Market studied stocks that returned one hundred times their purchase price.
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