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  • Siliconned

  • How the Tech Industry Solves Fake Problems, Hoards Idle Workers, and Makes Doomed Bets with Other People's Money
  • Written by: Emmanuel Maggiori
  • Narrated by: Ariel Paredes
  • Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins

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Siliconned

Written by: Emmanuel Maggiori
Narrated by: Ariel Paredes
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Publisher's Summary

A start-up wastes a billion dollars making videos nobody wants to watch. A city rushes to build landing pads for flightless air taxi prototypes. Tech giants hire thousands of techies for fake projects to stop them working for rivals.

The tech industry has a tendency to go crazy. In Siliconned, industry insider Emmanuel Maggiori decodes tech’s hysteria and explains why we all pay the price for it.

You’ll discover:

- How tech investment became a blind hunt for pipe dreams, unicorns, and explosive growth;

- How shady incentives reward tech investors for burning cash;

- How governments and central banks pour fuel on the fire;

- How tech companies squander talent, and how well-intentioned fads like Agile and Lean help cover it up.

From low interest rates to gigantic bubbles, Siliconned turns the tech industry upside down and suggests how to fix it.

©2024 Emmanuel Maggiori (P)2024 Emmanuel Maggiori
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