eBoys

Description

In eBOYS, Randall Stross takes us behind the scenes and inside the heads of the gutsy entrepreneurs who are financing the hottest businesses on the Web. The six tall men who started Benchmark, Silicon Valley's most exciting venture capital firm, put themselves at the cutting edge of the new economy by backing billion dollar start-ups like eBay and Webvan. The risks were enormous--but the rewards have proven to be staggering. Within two years, eBay's net worth grew from $20 million to more than $21 billion, while each Benchmark founding partner saw his own personal net worth soar by hundreds of millions of dollars.For two roller-coaster years, Stross had total access not only to Benchmark's executives but to the companies they financed. He was a fly on the wall as fortunes were made in an instant, snap decisions got locked in, and new ventures took off--and sometimes crashed. Here are the testosterone-pumped conversations, round-the-clock meetings, and gutsy deals that launched the eBoys and their clients into the stratosphere of mega-wealth. Written like a novel but absolutely true, eBOYS brings to vivid life the glory days of the greatest business adventure of our time.

First Sentence

The guy. No special emphasis on either the or guy, but no intervening pause, either.

Excerpt

The guy. No special emphasis on either the or guy, but no intervening pause, either.

Description

"Venture capitalists have become iconic symbols of our time, just as investment bankers, investigative journalists, and hippies defined previous eras. In eBoys, Randall Stross has captured the interplay of ambition, personality, experimentation, and risk, all acted out, larger than life, as the men of Benchmark and the entrepreneurs they back play their remarkable roles in the new world of Internet commerce and the creation of vast, sudden wealth."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Genres

• Biography.
• Case studies.

Other Editions

• eBoys: the first inside account of venture capitalists at workCrown Business2000-01-01
• eBoysHardcoverCrown Business2000-01-01
• eBoysElectronic resourceCrown Publishing Group2001-01-01
• eBOYSTurtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media2001-05-01
• eBoysPaperbackBallantine Books2001-05-29
• EboysHardcoverTEXERE Publishing2001-06-01