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  • Audiobook

    The Venture Alchemists

    How Big Tech Turned Profits into Power

    by Rob Lalka ...
    Narrated by Chris Abernathy ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 42 min

    We once idolized tech entrepreneurs for creating innovations that seemed like modern miracles. We now blame them for spreading lies, breaking laws, and causing chaos. Yesterday's Silicon Valley darlings have become today's Big Tech villains. Which is it? Are they superheroes or scoundrels? Or is it more complicated?In The Venture Alchemists, Rob Lalka demystifies how tech entrepreneurs built ... Read more

    $30.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Venture Alchemists

    How Big Tech Turned Profits Into Power

    by Rob Lalka ...
    Winner, 2025 Publication Award for Best Book - Social Impact, Tulane UniversityGold Medalist, 2025 Axiom Business Book Awards, Business Ethics - Future Trends categoryShortlist, 2024 Best in Business Book Awards, Society for Advancing Business Editing and WritingWe once idolized tech entrepreneurs for creating innovations that seemed like modern miracles. Yet our faith has been shattered. We now ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Invisible Rulers

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  • Your Face Belongs to Us

    A Tale of AI, a Secretive Startup, and the End of Privacy

    by Kashmir Hill ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The story of a small AI company that gave facial recognition to law enforcement, billionaires, and businesses, threatening to end privacy as we know it“The dystopian future portrayed in some science-fiction movies is already upon us. Kashmir Hill’s fascinating book brings home the scary implications of this new reality.”—John Carreyrou, author of Bad Blood**A BEST BOOK OF THE ... Read more

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  • The Contrarian

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    **A New York Times Notable BookA shocking and assiduously reported biography of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the enigmatic, controversial, and hugely influential power broker whose techno-authoritarian worldview is coming to dominate our collective reality“Max Chafkin’s The Contrarian is much more than a consistently shocking biography of Peter Thiel, the most important investor ... Read more

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  • The Age of Extraction

    How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity

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  • Tools and Weapons

    The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age

    by Brad Smith, Carol Ann Browne ...
    **The New York Times bestseller, now updated with new material on cyber attacks, digital sovereignty, and tech in a pandemic.From Microsoft's president and one of the tech industry's broadest thinkers, a frank and thoughtful reckoning with how to balance enormous promise and existential risk as the digitization of everything accelerates.“A colorful and insightful insiders’ view of how technology ... Read more

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    by Jonathan Taplin ...
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    Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley

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  • Controligarchs

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    "Controligarchs peers into the future and provides a haunting and revelatory exposé of the globalist elite’s playbook for the next five years.”- Peter Schweizer, author of Red-Handed, Clinton Cash, and Profiles in CorruptionImagine a world in which you own nothing and rent everything. Most of the protein in your diet comes from bugs. You are not allowed to have more than one child, and your ... Read more

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