His innovative management style, success, and innate sense of fair play inspire intense loyalty. Relating to the Internet as if it’s an extension of his own mind, he discovers that he has a talent for conceiving innovative enterprises and building teams that can develop them, becoming “a Pied Piper” of geeks. As a young man, despite suffering from what would eventually be diagnosed as bipolar disorder, he begins his pilgrim’s journey through the ups and downs in the brave new world of computers. Growing up in working-class Boston, English discovers a medium for his talents the first time he sees a computer. Tracy Kidder, the “master of the nonfiction narrative” ( The Baltimore Sun) and author of the bestselling classic The Soul of a New Machine, now tells the story of Paul English, a kinetic and unconventional inventor and entrepreneur, who as a boy rebelled against authority. “A perfectly executed, exquisitely reported parable of the Internet age and the wild, mad adventure that is start-up culture.”-Charles Duhiggįortune, mania, genius, philanthropy-the bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains gives us the inspiring story of Paul English, the founder of Kayak and Lola.
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