Paper Belt on Fire (häftad)
Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
344
Utgivningsdatum
2023-01-12
Förlag
Encounter Books,USA
Illustrationer
Illustrations
Dimensioner
231 x 150 x 38 mm
Vikt
740 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781641772457

Paper Belt on Fire

The Fight for Progress in an Age of Ashes

Inbunden,  Engelska, 2023-01-12
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Written by a successful venture capitalist (and university dropout), this book is part memoir, part guide for the next generation of innovators who seek an alternative to the traditional path in higher education. Part adventure tale, part manifesto, Paper Belt on Fire is a battle cry for anyone who ever dreamed of wresting power back from corrupt institutionsor of nailing the truth to the cathedral door. Peter Thiel, author of Zero to One Paper Belt on Fire is the unlikely account of how two outsiders with no experience in financea charter school principal and defrocked philosopherstart a venture capital fund to short the higher education bubble. Against the contempt of the education establishment, they discover, mentor, and back the leading lights in the next generation of dropout innovators and in the end make their investors millions. Can such a madcap strategy help renew American creativity? Who would do such a thing? This story is the behind-the-scenes romp of one team that threw educational authorities into a panic. It fuses real-life personal drama with history, science, and philosophy to show how higher education and other institutions must evolve to meet the dire challenges of tomorrow.
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Part adventure tale, part manifesto, Paper Belt on Fire is a battle cry for anyone who ever dreamed of wresting power back from corrupt institutionsor of nailing the truth to the cathedral door. Peter Thiel, author of Zero to One Michael Gibson has spearheaded a recent revolution in education, and how to turn it into true learning and achievement. Paper Belt on Fire gives an inside look at how this was accomplished, the people behind the story, and how and why America can do better. Tyler Cowen, author of The Great Stagnation and professor of economics, George Mason University Paper Belt on Fire is both an indictment of failing institutions and a behind-the-scenes adventure about the mischief-makers fighting to renew Americas dynamism. Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz

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Michael Gibson is the co-founder of the venture capital fund 1517, which is devoted to backing dropouts and people who never stepped foot on a college campus. Before his academic apostasy, he was working towards a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Oxford. He has written on innovation and technology for MITs Technology Review, National Review, the Atlantic, and City Journal.