Randall stross biography
- I was born in 1954, grew up in Topeka, Kansas, and Denver, Colorado, and received my undergraduate education at Macalester College, in St. Paul, Minnesota.
- Based on extensive interviews and published accounts, Mr. Stross uses vignettes and word pictures to make the computer industry and some of its unique.
- Randall Stross writes the New York Times column Digital Domain and is professor of business at San Jose State University.
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Stross, Randall E.
(Randall Stross)
PERSONAL:
Male.
ADDRESSES:
Office—San Jose State University, 1 Washington Sq., San Jose, CA 95192-0065. E-mail—[email protected]; [email protected].
CAREER:
San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, professor.
WRITINGS:
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The Stubborn Earth: American Agriculturalists on Chinese Soil, 1898-1937,University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1986.
(Editor) Technology and Society in Twentieth Century America: An Anthology, Dorsey Press (Chicago, IL), 1989.
Bulls in the China Shop: And Other Sino-American Business Encounters, Pantheon Books (New York, NY), 1990.
Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1993.
The Microsoft Way: The Real Story of How the Company Outsmarts Its Competition, Addison-Wesley (Reading, MA), 1996.
eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work, Crown Business (New York, NY), 2000.
The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World, Crown Publishers (New York, NY), 2007.
Contributor to periodicals, including For I'm a historian who writes mostly about present-day technology, business, and society. My most recent book is an exception and is centered on higher education, the liberal arts, and Stanford University in particular: A Practical Education. It looks at the contention between the liberal arts and engineering at Stanford, from the university's founding to the present. It also narrates the job-seeking experiences of ten recent Stanford grads who chose a major in the humanities. In 2012, I published The Launch Pad, an account of the sixty-four startups that went through Y Combinator in summer 2011. It was the third book I've written about Silicon Valley startups. The first was published in 1993: Steve Jobs & the NeXT Big Thing, a story of a startup that struggled and struggled. From the misery of those dark years, Jobs learned much that would serve him well when he returned to Apple. The other earlier book on startups was eBoys (2000), a fly-on-the-wall account of the workings of then-young Benchmark Capital. Work on it happened to coincide with the dot-com boom in the Vall Randall Stross is the author of six previous books, including eBoys, Steve Jobs & the Next Big Thing and The Wizard of Menlo Park. This biography was last updated on 09/23/2008. The above represents the biographical information provided by the publisher for the most recent book by this author that BookBrowse has covered. As such, it is likely a brief snapshot in time. If you are looking for a more expansive biography, you may wish to do an internet search for the author's website or social media presence. If you are the author or publisher and would like us to update this biography, send the complete text and we will replace the old with the new. •
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