Stealing MySpace
The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America

A friend who works at YouTube recommended this because he said it was a good example of the differences between the start-up cultures in Los Angeles and the Silicon Valley. He was right and I'm glad I read it. The differences he referred to are going to become important as these kinds of companies b......more

I’ve read a bunch of corporate biographies, most are informative and surprising, and all have given me a greater understanding of how the modern business world works. Corporations have a life cycle (an origination story, development, maturity, etc) which gives them a narrative similar to a person. T......more

Impeccable journalism by Julia Angwin, but I do wish an afterward or epilogue portion had been written - maybe there's a version out there with such a conclusion, but the Audible audiobook does not have this. It was published on the very first day of 2009, when this theft/transaction was still fresh......more

Interesting chapter in the history of the internet and social media. I rate three stars as average, decent.......more

Understanding the history of MySpace can help entrepreneurs today avoid the same mistakes. I thought the book was well written and interesting.......more