In a riveting, hilarious account, reporter Alexandra Wolfe exposes a world that
is not flat but bubbling—the men and women of Silicon Valley, whose hubris and
ambition are changing the world.
Each year, young people from around the world go to Silicon Valley to hatch an
idea, start a company, strike it rich, and become powerful and famous. In The
Valley of the Gods, Wolfe follows three of these upstarts who have "stopped out"
of college and real life to live and work in Silicon Valley in the hopes of
becoming the next Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk. No one has yet documented the
battle for the