David A. Kaplan

Mine's Bigger

The Extraordinary Tale of the World's Greatest Sailboat and the Silicon Valley Tycoon Who Built It

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As the dominant venture capitalist of Silicon Valley, Tom Perkins had seemingly done it all—from amassing a billion-dollar fortune to getting himself convicted of manslaughter in France. But his ultimate dream was to create the biggest, fastest, riskiest, highest-tech, most self-indulgent sailboat ever built.With keen storytelling and biting wit, bestselling author David A. Kaplan takes us inside the mind of an American genius and behind the scenes of an extraordinary venture: the birth of Perkins's $130 million marvel The Maltese Falcon. This modern clipper ship is as long as a football field and forty-two feet wide, with three rotating mast… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-06-137402-9
EAN: 9780061374029
Produktnummer: 20385604
Verlag: Harper Collins (US)
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Ausstattung: Trade Paperback

Über den Autor

David A. Kaplan is a senior editor at Newsweek. He is the author of The Silicon Boys, a national bestseller that has been translated into six languages. His work has also appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Washington Post, various Op-Ed pages, Parenting, and Food & Wine. A graduate of Cornell and the New York University School of Law, he lives with his wife and two sons in Irvington, New York.