Champions of Silicon Valley: Visionary Thinking from Today's

A close-up, personal look at the high-tech industry's most powerful venture capitalists, technologists, and entrepreneurs, this work digs beneath Silicon Valley's glitz and glamour to access the drive and vision that made it the epicentre of global business. Through a series of in-depth profiles of high-tech's top ten technologists, entrepreneurs, and financiers, industry insider Charles Sigismund brings to light the five visions that drive the high-tech industry, and explores the vital link between the venture capitalists and entrepreneurs jointly responsible for Silicon Valley's growth. Based on extensive interviews with financiers Art Rock and Don Valentine, entrepreneurs Tim Koogle and Jim Barksdale, technologists Gordon Moore and Ronald Eastman, and others, these fascinating profiles reveal how the high-tech powerbrokers view their role in the industry, both now and for the future