Re:The Autodesk File (2017)
by eisstrom on Saturday March 31, 2018 @03:31PM
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Does anyone know similar books? I. e. about the history of a company from an insider's perspective?
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For memo, I just created a file so the list could be augmented at: https://github.com/jhadjar/Notes/blob/master/creation_proces...
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Not sure it's exactly what you're looking for, but I really liked:
- The Making of Prince of Persia - Jordan Mechner - Masters of Doom - David Kushner. - Founders at Work - Jessica Livingston (aggregate of stories)
Pretty cool in different ways:
- The first shows how the author documented a good chunk of the process (like solving the problem of the Prince's alter ego).
- The second by the journalistic work the author went through and access he had.
- The third by the context it gives on many things (for example, you get a glimpse on Palantir's current work by looking into Paypal's history and the work Max Levchin, CTO at the time, and his team did on fraud detection, or Hotmail's growth tactics).
Big Blues, about IBM/Microsoft is an interesting read.
Almost Perfect, about WordPerfect’s rise and fall.
Soul of a New Machine.