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Silicon Sky

Silicon Sky

Dorsey, Gary

Paperback

Business GeneralTechnology & Engineering

ISBN10: 0738203122
ISBN13: 9780738203126
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: May 1 2000
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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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