Anyone uninitiated in the glories and ignominies of Silicon Valley will delight in “Burn Book: A Tech Love Story,” Kara Swisher’s memoir-cum-history of Silicon Valley’s internet era. It presents a thorough accounting of the people, companies and trends within technology from the 1990s onward, told through the bombastic, breezy prism of a narrative of Swisher’s life. For that same reason, it will delight anyone who has only recently discovered Swisher’s ubiquity on those subjects.
On the other hand, there’s too little here for decided Swisher fans and the Silicon Valley veterans and insiders who lived through the period covered in the book. It sweeps briskly through the stories of companies such as Netscape, Yahoo, Google and Facebook and the tales of entrepreneurs like Larry Page and Sergey Brin (“the twins,” in Swisherspeak), Mark Zuckerberg and, especially and repeatedly, Elon Musk. She has told these stories before—and told them often and well. She tells them again here.
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