Digital Hustlers: Living Large and Falling Hard in Silicon Alley
About this ebook
until April 2000, when the NASDAQ zeppelin finally burst and fell at their feet.
In the pages of Digital Hustlers, Alley insiders Casey Kait and Stephen Weiss have captured the excitement and excesses of this remarkable moment in time. Weaving together the voices of more than fifty of the industry's leading characters, this extraordinary oral history offers a ground-zero look at the birth of a new medium. Here are entrepreneurs like Kevin O'Connor of DoubleClick, Fernando Espuelas of StarMedia, and Craig Kanarick of Razorfish; commentators like Omar Wasow of MSNBC and Jason McCabe Calacanis of the Silicon Alley Reporter; and inimitable Alley characters like party diva Courtney Pulitzer and Josh Harris, the clown prince of Pseudo.com. Together they describe a world of sweatshop programmers and paper millionaires, of cocktail-napkin business plans and billion-dollar IPOs, of spectacular successes and flame-outs alike.
Candid and open-eyed, bristling with energy and argument, Digital Hustlers is an unforgettable group portrait of a wildly creative culture caught in the headlights of achievement.
About the author
Casey Kait, at twenty-five, was vice president of MP3Lit.com and most recently a senior producer at Salon.com. She lives in New York City.
Stephen Weiss, at twenty-five, was executive vice president of RedFilter.com and a former magazine editor. He lives in New York City.
