Biographies About
Famous Tech Players
Meet the masters of innovation—coding and gaming whizzes, state-of-the-art inventors,
and Silicon Valley visionaries whose breakthrough businesses changed the world.
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Pichai
- The Future of Google
- By: Jagmohan S. Bhanver
- Narrated by: Reuel Ferreira
- Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
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An incisive look into the world's most innovative tech company and the man chosen to lead it....
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Can not hear narrated with strong Indian accent
- By Kangoroo2 on 06-09-17
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Pichai
- The Future of Google
- Narrated by: Reuel Ferreira
- Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 03-19-17
- Language: English
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The Poison Squad
- One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
- By: Deborah Blum
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
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From Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times best-selling author Deborah Blum comes the dramatic true story of how food was made safe in the United States and the heroes, led by the inimitable Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, who fought for change....
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Food Chemist
- By Lady K on 01-21-20
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The Poison Squad
- One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 09-25-18
- Language: English
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The Players Ball
- A Genius, a Con Man, and the Secret History of the Internet's Rise
- By: David Kushner
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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"An engrossing microcosm of the internet’s Wild West years" (Kirkus Reviews), award-winning journalist David Kushner tells the incredible battle between the founder of Match.com and the con man who swindled him out of the website Sex.com, resulting in an all-out war....
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One Hell of a Book
- By Austin Pierce on 04-25-19
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The Players Ball
- A Genius, a Con Man, and the Secret History of the Internet's Rise
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 04-09-19
- Language: English
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Trillion Dollar Coach
- The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell
- By: Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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The team behind How Google Works returns with management lessons from legendary coach and business executive Bill Campbell, whose mentoring of some of our most successful modern entrepreneurs has helped create well over a trillion dollars in market value....
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This is a eulogy, not a "playbook."
- By intangiblereverie on 04-17-19
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Trillion Dollar Coach
- The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 04-16-19
- Language: English
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The Space Barons
- By: Christian Davenport
- Narrated by: Will Collyer
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
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The Space Barons is the story of a group of billionaire entrepreneurs who are pouring their fortunes into the epic resurrection of the American space program....
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An Incredible Modern Story Well Told
- By Greg Autry on 04-06-18
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The Space Barons
- Narrated by: Will Collyer
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 03-20-18
- Language: English
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American Prometheus
- The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- By: Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 26 hrs and 30 mins
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J. Robert Oppenheimer, an iconic figure of the 20th century, was a brilliant physicist who led efforts to build an atomic bomb but later confronted the moral consequences of scientific progress....
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An American Tragedy
- By Edith on 12-13-07
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American Prometheus
- The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 26 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 03-28-07
- Language: English
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The Last Man Who Knew Everything
- The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age
- By: David N. Schwartz
- Narrated by: Tristan Morris
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
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The definitive biography of the brilliant, charismatic, and very human physicist and innovator Enrico Fermi....
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- By Peter Ryers on 01-16-18
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The Last Man Who Knew Everything
- The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age
- Narrated by: Tristan Morris
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 12-05-17
- Language: English
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Jony Ive
- The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products
- By: Leander Kahney
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
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The best-selling author of Inside Steve's Brain profiles Apple's legendary chief designer, Jonathan Ive....
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Was hoping to get to know the man behind the name.
- By Idan B. on 06-15-14
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Jony Ive
- The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 11-14-13
- Language: English
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Minecraft
- The Unlikely Tale of Markus 'Notch' Persson and the Game that Changed Everything
- By: Linus Larsson, Daniel Goldberg, Jennifer Hawkins - translator
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
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Three years ago, 32-year-old Markus "Notch" Persson of Stockholm was an unknown and bored computer programmer. Today, he is a multi-millionaire international icon....
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From Legos to Pixels
- By Susie on 03-17-14
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Minecraft
- The Unlikely Tale of Markus 'Notch' Persson and the Game that Changed Everything
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 02-25-14
- Language: English
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Idea Man
- A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft
- By: Paul Allen
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
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By his early 30s, Paul Allen was a world-famous billionaire. And that was just the beginning....
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jesus h christ...
- By Alt on 11-20-19
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Idea Man
- A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 04-19-11
- Language: English
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The Strangest Man
- The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom
- By: Graham Farmelo
- Narrated by: B. J. Harrison
- Length: 19 hrs and 28 mins
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Paul Dirac was among the great scientific geniuses of the modern age....
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Excellent biography of great physicist
- By Eileen on 05-09-13
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The Strangest Man
- The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom
- Narrated by: B. J. Harrison
- Length: 19 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 12-01-09
- Language: English
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Valley of Genius
- By: Adam Fisher
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
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Drawing on over 200 in-depth interviews, Valley of Genius takes listeners from the dawn of the personal computer and the Internet, through the heyday of the web, up to the very moment when our current technological reality was invented....
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- By ElJaws on 07-27-18
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Valley of Genius
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 07-10-18
- Language: English
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Dealers of Lightning
- Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
- By: Michael Hiltzik
- Narrated by: Forrest Sawyer
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
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Dealers of Lightning is the riveting story of the legendary Xerox PARC....
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Audio quality is bad, story is awe inducing
- By David Phillips on 01-14-15
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Dealers of Lightning
- Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
- Narrated by: Forrest Sawyer
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 12-16-99
- Language: English
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Losing the Signal
- The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry
- By: Jacquie McNish, Sean Silcoff
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
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Losing the Signal is a riveting story of a company that toppled global giants before succumbing to the ruthlessly competitive forces of Silicon Valley....
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Fascinating
- By Gerardo A Dada on 09-05-15
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Losing the Signal
- The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 05-26-15
- Language: English
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Digital Gold
- Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money
- By: Nathaniel Popper
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
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A New York Times technology and business reporter charts the dramatic rise of Bitcoin and the fascinating personalities who are striving to create a new global money....
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Informative, but dry
- By Tomer on 05-10-16
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Digital Gold
- Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 05-19-15
- Language: English
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In the Plex
- How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
- By: Steven Levy
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 19 hrs and 45 mins
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Few companies have ever been as successful and as admired as Google, the company that has transformed the Internet and become an indispensable part of our lives....
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Just ok for me
- By Everyday Mom on 04-23-11
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In the Plex
- How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 19 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 04-12-11
- Language: English
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Without Their Permission
- How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed
- By: Alexis Ohanian
- Narrated by: Alexis Ohanian
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
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As Alexis Ohanian learned when he helped to co-found the immensely popular reddit.com, the internet is the most powerful and democratic tool for disseminating information in human history....
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Best Non-Fiction of 2014
- By The Audience on 06-18-14
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Without Their Permission
- How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed
- Narrated by: Alexis Ohanian
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 10-01-13
- Language: English
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