Now including a new afterword An instant New York Times bestseller from award-winning journalist Kara Swisher, Burn Book is a 'highly readable...bawdy, brash, and compulsively thought-provoking' (Booklist, starred review) account of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead. Part memoir, part history, Burn Book is a necessary chronicle of tech's most powerful players. From 'the queen of all media' (Walt Mossberg, The Wall Street Journal), this is the inside story we've all been waiting for about modern Silicon Valley and the biggest boom in wealth creation in the history of the world. When tech titans crowed that they would 'move fast and break things,' Kara Swisher was moving faster and breaking news. While covering the explosion of the digital sector in the early 1990s, she developed a long track record of digging up and reporting the facts about this new world order. Her consistent scoops drove one CEO to accuse her of 'listening in the