There was something from Sarah Lacy’s book Once You’re Lucky Twice You’re Good which really hit home. Today kids look to FaceBook as their exclusive communication tool. They don’t do email like our generation overdoes email.
That’s a key indicator of how different today’s Web2.0 kids are changing the rules. Can the establishment keep up with them? Well see in the very short term future.
This was a great read and I must thank Kate Olson who was able to get a copy for me to read and post my review.
Lacy’s book, IMHO starts with the best story first. Max Levchin. His inspiring story of fleeing Ukraine the night of the Chernobyl disaster was amazing. He flees from a hospital in the middle of the night to later leave college to start PayPal.
Yes, that’s right a kid who flew the USSR makes his way to Silicon Valley and San Francisco to put his amazing mathematical skills to use and builds an amazing tool that would later be purchased by eBay.
Sarah also documents the story of Kevin Rose, founder of Digg.com and proves again that Marc Andreessen really is a jerk. But from the outside many of us would not know the ins and outs of the Web2.0 world and all their financial venture “vulture capital” stories. Pretty rough from the outside…but Sarah makes this work. Interested to know more about the inner circle of the Web2.0 world? Read Once You’re Lucky, Twice your Good!
One reply on “Latest read: Once You’re Lucky Twice You’re Good”
I’m so glad that you liked the book! Sometimes I totally “preach” books and no one agrees with me, so I’m happy to hear that you liked it as much as I did :-)