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Before Silicon Valley owned the future, New York had Silicon Alley. For one wild moment in the late 1990s, Manhattan’s Flatiron district was the center of the internet universe — and Casey Kait and Stephen Weiss’s Digital Hustlers, published in 2001, captures that feverish era in all its excess and energy.
Straight out of college, a generation of e-moguls turned cocktail-napkin ideas into IPOs, burned through millions before making a cent, and partied like the boom would never end — until it did. Kait and Weiss, reporting from inside the scene, profile the founders, funders, and hangers-on of the tech gold rush that was born, thrived, and died online.
Part business history, part cautionary tale, this is an unforgettable group portrait of a wildly creative culture — and the definitive front-row account of the crash that taught the tech world its hardest lesson. For readers fascinated by startups, the dot-com bubble, or simply a great story of ambition and hubris.
Before Silicon Valley owned the future, New York had Silicon Alley — and for one wild moment in the late 1990s, it was the center of the internet universe. Casey Kait and Stephen Weiss’s Digital Hustlers: Living Large and Falling Hard in Silicon Alley, published in 2001, captures that feverish era in all its excess and energy.
Straight out of college, a generation of e-moguls turned cocktail-napkin ideas into IPOs, burned through millions before making a cent, and partied like the boom would never end — until it did. Kait and Weiss, reporting from inside the scene, profile the founders, funders, and hangers-on of Manhattan’s Flatiron district tech gold rush.
Part business history, part cautionary tale, this is an unforgettable group portrait of a wildly creative culture that was born, thrived, and died online. For readers fascinated by startups, the dot-com bubble, or simply a great story of ambition and hubris, Digital Hustlers remains the definitive front-row account of the crash that taught the tech world its hardest lesson.
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