The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World

by Brad Stone

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Stone, author of The Everything Store, parallel-tracks the founding stories of Uber and Airbnb to show how two side projects reshaped transportation, hospitality, and labor. The book argues that the sharing economy's success depended on regulatory arbitrage as much as on technology or design.

Published:: 2017
Pages:: 372

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In this collection, The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World references 3 other books.

It draws on The Everything Store, In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives and Steve Jobs.

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Stone extends the access-journalism method of his own Everything Store, explicitly treating that Amazon book as the methodological template for this parallel founder-history

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The Everything Store

by Brad Stone

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Stone draws on Levy's In the Plex for the Google-era growth playbook that Uber and Airbnb internalized as Silicon Valley orthodoxy

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In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

by Steven Levy

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Isaacson's Steve Jobs is referenced as the founder-myth archetype Stone works within and against when profiling Kalanick and Chesky

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Steve Jobs

by Walter Isaacson

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