Gutenberg the Geek (Kindle Single)
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| Rating | : | 4.42 (609 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B007EI62I0 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 415 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Very Enjoyable" according to Walter Reade. I listen to Jeff Jarvis every week on the "This Week in Google" podcast. He drives me crazy 80% of the time. But, he's worth listening to the other 20%. Jeff is not afraid to think. He is not afraid to weave narratives and create hypotheses from observations from the modern world and from the world of history. He has a relentless habit of extracting meaning from eve. Quite a good read but the focus of the discussionâ doesn't leap Amazon Customer Not got round to finishing yet. Quite a good read but the focus of the discussionâ doesn't leap off the page for me.. "Interesting" according to Betty Ann Korzenny. I provides an interesting parallel between Gutenberg as an entrepreneur and modern silicon valley entrepreneurs. Very short but provocative and informative.
No, to find the man who made the mold, you've got to go back to fifteenth-century Germany to find Johannes Gutenberg. Not Steve Jobs. Read your history, Jarvis insists. "Gutenberg," he argues, "should… be seen as the patron saint of Silicon Valley, for he used technology to create an industry." Setting Gutenberg's successes against the real pitfalls he endured, notably his early struggle to amass sufficient capital, Jarvis portrays a bad-boy innovator with a deft, if sometimes heavy hand. Jarvis portrays the famed inventor as creator of more than just the printing press and the market for Bibles. Who was the original world-changing techno-entrepreneurial innovator? Not Google's Larry and Sergey. He bravely wears his assumptions-- for example, the neutrality of technology-- on his sleeve, and his lesson for techn
This is also the inspiring story of a great disruptor. That is what makes Gutenberg the patron saint of entrepreneurs.Jeff Jarvis is the author of "Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live" and "What Would Google Do?: Reverse-Engineering the Fastest Growing Company in the History of the World." He directs the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism.. Johannes Gutenberg was our first geek, the original technology entrepreneur, who had to grapple with all the challenges a Silicon Valley startup faces today. Jeff Jarvis tells Gutenberg's story from an entrepreneurial perspective, examining how he overcame technology hurdles, how he operated with the secrecy of a Steve Jobs but then shifted to openness, how he raised capital and mitigated risk, and how, in the end, his cash flow and equity structure did him in