As the dominant venture capitalist of Silicon Valley, Tom Perkins had
seemingly done it all—from amassing a billion-dollar fortune to
getting himself convicted of manslaughter in France. But his ultimate
dream was to create the biggest, fastest, riskiest, highest-tech, most
self-indulgent sailboat ever built. With keen storytelling and biting
wit, bestselling author David A. Kaplan takes us inside the mind of an
American genius and behind the scenes of an extraordinary venture: the
birth of Perkins's $130 million marvel The Maltese Falcon. This modern
clipper ship is as long as a football field and forty-two feet wide,
with three rotating masts, each twenty stories high, and a bridge
straight out of Star Trek. The riveting biography of a remarkable ship
and the remarkable man who built it, Mine's Bigger is an unforgettable
profile of ambition, hubris, audacity, and the imagination of a
legendary entrepreneur.
Les mer
Tom Perkins and the Making of the Greatest Sailing Machine Ever Built
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780061748011
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Vendor
HarperCollins e-books/Open Road Integrated Media
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Forfatter