Troublemakers

Silicon Valley's birth is chronicled in Troublemakers, a gripping tale of seven pioneers from diverse backgrounds who worked to bring technology out of Pentagon offices and university laboratories to the rest of the world, changing its course forever. Leslie Berlin details the stories of Apple, Atari, Genentech, Xerox PARC, ROLM, ASK, and the venture capital firms Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The birth of personal computing, video games, biotechnology, modern venture capital, and advanced semiconductor logic within seven years is only part of the story. These troublemakers, including an overlooked Apple chairman, a woman who took a tech company public, and the Atari engineer behind the first successful video game, disrupt the status quo and pave the way for the future.