Silicon Sky: How One Small Start-up Went Over The Top And Beat The Big Boys Into Satellite Heaven - Couverture rigide

Dorsey, Gary

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ISBN 10 : 0738200948 ISBN 13 : 9780738200941

Editeur : Basic Books, 1999

Synopsis

For more than a decade some of the world's most powerful defense companies have raced to launch the first constellation of low-earth orbit commercial satellites. The prize? An explosive global market for personal communications worth billions of dollars. Fresh out of Harvard Business School, twenty-something David Thompson entered the fray with an insane idea: to build his own rockets, satellites and a multi-million-dollar corporation that could go head-to-head against the big guys. His electrifying grab for the heavens—huge start-up costs, mind-blowing technical obstacles, and dark tangos with investors—is told by acclaimed writer Gary Dorsey, who was there reporting from inside. The story of their obsessive gamble in the high-stress game of space commerce is told through the lives of Thompson's managers, markets, and “freshouts”—a brilliant team of young engineers from the country's best universities. Like The Soul of a New Machine, Silicon Sky —part of the celebrated Sloan Technology Series—reads like fast-paced fiction, tracing the advent not just of a single company, but of a quickly emerging technological industry.

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For more than a decade some of the world's most powerful defense companies have raced to launch the first constellation of low-earth orbit commercial satellites. The prize? An explosive global market for personal communications worth billions of dollars. Fresh out of Harvard Business School, twenty-something David Thompson entered the fray with an insane idea: to build his own rockets, satellites and a multi-million-dollar corporation that could go head-to-head against the big guys. His electrifying grab for the heavens huge start-up costs, mind-blowing technical obstacles, and dark tangos with investors is told by acclaimed writer Gary Dorsey, who was there reporting from inside. The story of their obsessive gamble in the high-stress game of space commerce is told through the lives of Thompson's managers, markets, and freshouts” a brilliant team of young engineers from the country's best universities. Like The Soul of a New Machine, Silicon Sky part of the celebrated Sloan Technology Series reads like fast-paced fiction, tracing the advent not just of a single company, but of a quickly emerging technological industry.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Basic Books
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0738200948
• ISBN 13: 9780738200941
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 352
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• Personne responsable: non disponible