Ask HN: What are the best books on Silicon Valley and the dot com boom and bust?

7 pointsby dclvor 6 Jahren6 comments

I'd love to read some good accounts from people who went through or studied the dot com boom and bust. Varying perspectives would be great, founders, employees, VC's, bankers, brokers etc.

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samizdisvor 6 Jahren

The New New Thing, by Michael Lewis, is about Jim Clark and the companies he founded at the time. It's a good read.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_New_Thing

dclvor 6 Jahren

I've actually read that. Was very good.

japhyrvor 6 Jahren

Totally Wired, by Andrew Smith, tells the story of the dot com boom and bust from the NYC perspective. There was a lot more happening in NYC than I ever imagined, and I lived there at the time. It was also a much more artistic scene than I ever knew.

dclvor 6 Jahren

I live in Australia. What was going on in NYC at the time never even crossed my mind. Will check it out.

Unknown_Unknownvor 6 Jahren

John Carreyou: Bad Blood.

dclvor 6 Jahren

A bit more recent than the dot com boom but yeah good book.