Recommendations on books and docs on tech companies/people? (Repost)
Came across this amazing thread from a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17204467
And wanted to ask again to hear people's latest recommendations! I've read a number of the recommendations and found them fascinating.
👤 pamoroso Accepted Answer ✓
In "Sweating Bullets: Notes about Inventing PowerPoint" PowerPoint creator Robert Gaskins tells how he designed and developed the most famous slide presentation application. The book is available at the author's site: https://www.robertgaskins.com/powerpoint-history/sweating-bu...
👤 glokta
For an account of early Silicon Valley, "Accidental Empires" by Robert Cringely.