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How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars
- The Snapchat Story
- De: Billy Gallagher
- Narrado por: Billy Gallagher
- Duración: 7 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 231
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 201
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 201
In 2013 Evan Spiegel, the brash CEO of the social network Snapchat, and his co-founder Bobby Murphy stunned the press when they walked away from a three-billion-dollar offer from Facebook: how could an app teenagers use to text dirty photos dream of a higher valuation? Was this hubris, or genius? In How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars, tech journalist Billy Gallagher takes us inside the rise of one of Silicon Valley's hottest start-ups. Snapchat began as a late-night dorm room revelation, the brainchild of Stanford English major Reggie Brown who was nursing regrets about photos he had sent.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good start, bland finish, hero worship abound
- De Bamagrad03 en 03-18-18
- How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars
- The Snapchat Story
- De: Billy Gallagher
- Narrado por: Billy Gallagher
Informative Book -- Could not stop listening
Revisado: 02-24-18
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I had a somewhat negative connotation of Snapchat and its founder because I only knew what I had read in the major stories about the company over the past several years. This book objectively goes from the very beginnings of the company through to mid-2017. The author went to school with the founder so he seemed to have access to common friends who work(ed) at the company to use as sources.The book is similar to the Hatching Twitter book, but I liked this one better because it was read by the author. The other book was read by someone who did different voices for everyone, which is distracting.In a way, this book reminded me of a Malcolm Gladwell book. Which is a great thing. There were many parts where it had "In order to fully understand x, it is necessary to go back and look at y". And we ended up with interesting backstories of related companies and trends and even a pretty thorough rise and fall story about a company called "Clinkle".The other good thing about the author's narration is he talks so fast that I didn't have to up the playback speed to 1.25x. This would probably be a 10+ hour book read by a professional reader.Highly recommend.
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