Award-winning journalist Kara Swisher delivers a witty, scathing, yet impartial assessment of the tech sector and its innovators aiming to revolutionize the world but inadvertently causing its downfall. A mixture of personal recollections and historical accounts, Burn Book serves as an essential record of the most influential figures in the tech industry. This inside story is one that we have all eagerly anticipated, shedding light on modern Silicon Valley and the unprecedented surge in wealth generation recognized as the largest in global history. When tech giants boasted about their intention to "move quickly and disrupt," Kara Swisher was moving even faster and breaking stories. When she reported on the digital sector explosion in the early 1990s, she built a strong reputation for uncovering and sharing the facts about this emerging era. Her scoops that were always on point led a CEO to accuse her of eavesdropping through the heating ducts and prompted Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook to comment, "It's a running joke in the Valley that when composing memos, people often add, 'I pray Kara doesn't find out about this. " ’” While she was in college, Swisher began her career at The Washington Post, where she stood out as one of the scarce individuals in the field of journalism who was intrigued by reporting on the emerging Internet. She proceeded to work for The Wall Street Journal, collaborating with Walt Mossberg to launch the innovative D: All Things Digital conference and leading tech news websites. Over three decades, Swisher has interviewed all important figures in the tech industry just as they oversaw a surge of groundbreaking innovation that impacted our world positively and negatively. Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Sheryl Sandberg, Bob Iger, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Meg Whitman, Peter Thiel, Sam Altman, and Mark Zuckerberg are among those whom Swisher caused to exert effort - figuratively and, in Zuckerberg's instance, literally. Swisher remains hopeful about technology's ability to address issues rather than just causing them, despite the challenges she discusses. She urges the industry to improve and make more considerate decisions, amidst the impending impact of another powerful set of AI tools set to revolutionize the world once more. In its core, this book is a love story towards, aimed at, and concerning technology from an individual who understands it more than anyone else.
