Our book recommendations: * Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure, by @Jerry_Kaplan (via Carter) * Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal, by @nickbilton (via Dennis) * Whole Earth: The Many Lives of @stewartbrand by @markoff (via Rich)

@JasonHirschhorn @joshelman Great to see this. A few things to add. Kaplan’s “Startup, a Silicon Valley Adventure” about the rise and fall of “Go” belongs on this list. “The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story” isn’t fiction. It may read like fiction, because Michael Lewis is such a great writer;it isn’t.

7/10 Go founder Jerry Kaplan wrote a book, simply called 'Startup'. He tells the story of creating the computer and OS, pre-selling to State Farm, one of the most important corporate client of the time… only to be sabotaged by pretend-partner Microsoft! https://t.co/Grmyg1a74i