The Deal: A Novel of Silicon Valley
Written by Joe Hutsko
Narrated by Jim Bond
3/5
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About this audiobook
Apple insider Joe Hutsko offers a ringside seat to the struggle for control of America's most innovative computer company. Meet Peter Jones: brilliant, mercurical, he literally invented the personal computer. And Matthew Locke: quintessential company man and marketing genius. Both are determined to control Via Computers, the company Jones began in his garage, forged out of vision and chutzpah, and—some say—is dangerously close to destroying.
Driven more by aesthetic instincts and perfectionism than the bottom line, Jones doesn't see that his company is sinking fast. As sales drop and deadlines are missed, a clash is inevitable. Matthew Locke means to wrest power from Jones and commit the company to a Faustian pact with its largest competitor. As the battle for power escalates, it tests the greed and morality of nearly everyone in Silicon Valley. At the center of the storm lies a simple question: what defines a company—its people, its product, or its vision?
Here are Silicon Valley's legendary players: the supercharged young wizards, the glossy baby execs, the bored rich, and the shrewd parasites they attract, all woven into a taut novel written by one of the Valley's own.
Joe Hutsko
Joe Hutsko joined Apple in 1984 at the age of 20, and a year later was made John Sculley’s personal technical advisor. Since leaving Apple in 1988, Hutsko has worked as a technical advisor and writer for several Silicon Valley firms, including Apple cofounder Steve Job’s company, NeXT Computer, Inc. He has written for The New York Times and a variety of magazines. He is a continuing media contributor to the San Francisco NBC affiliate. Joe Hutsko lives in San Francisco.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I'm not sure what to say about The Deal. I picked it up off the 'paperback new releases' table at my mystery bookshop. I can't figure out why in the heck it was even for sale at a mystery bookshop. No dead bodies and precious little mystery of any kind. The plot is full of holes and fairly obvious from the getgo. The story is about corporate politics at computer companies. What is so confusing to me is that I could barely put it down. It's one of the few books that kept me up way past the time my eyes would have closed. I couldn't stop reading it. It was one of the strangest book experiences I've had in a long time.