How to Rule the World: An Education in Power at Stanford University

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The instant New York Times bestseller • Named a Best Book of the Year (So Far) by Barnes & Noble and Amazon"A rigorous, self-assured, propulsive, at times terrifying portrait of a dweebocracy that ‘sets the agenda for the planet’ . . . in the tradition of Michael Lewis’s Wall Street chronicle Liar’s Poker.” —The New York Times"If Baker’s portrait o...

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Marque: GENERIC
Titre principal: How to Rule the World: An Education in Power at Stanford University
Editeur: Penguin Press
Type de produit: paperback
Présentation du livre: paperback
Release date: 5/19/2026 12:00:00 AM
Langue d'origine: English
ISBN: 593832841
Nombre de pages de livre: 336 pages
Langue - Librairie: English
Résumé: The instant New York Times bestseller • Named a Best Book of the Year (So Far) by Barnes & Noble and Amazon"A rigorous, self-assured, propulsive, at times terrifying portrait of a dweebocracy that ‘sets the agenda for the planet’ . . . in the tradition of Michael Lewis’s Wall Street chronicle Liar’s Poker.” —The New York Times"If Baker’s portrait of Stanford could be its own movie (The Internship crossed with The Skulls), his gripping account of how a tip turned into a history-making investigation has the makings of All the President’s Men." —The San Francisco Chronicle “Poignant, maddening, and genuinely hilarious, How to Rule the World is to be devoured—and fast, before Stanford buys up and sets fire to every copy. (Talk about a burn book!)” —Mark LeibovichFrom Theo Baker, winner of the George Polk Award for his investigation that brought down Stanford's president, comes a revelatory and gripping account of Silicon Valley hubris.Slush funds. Shell companies. Yacht parties. This is life for Silicon Valley’s favored teenagers.Seventeen-year-old Theo Baker showed up for freshman year at Stanford University as a tech-obsessed coder. It seemed like paradise. There were Rodin sculptures next to nuclear laboratories and inventors lounging with Olympians. But Baker soon discovered a culture that embraced corner-cutting, that vested infinite excess and access in the hands of kids with few safeguards to catch bad behavior.Stanford, he realized, was less a school than a business. Its annual budget was nearly twice that of Harvard or Yale and higher than those of 116 countries. The product? Students. Especially those special few identified as the next trillion-dollar startup founders. For them, there were secret societies, “pre-idea” funding offers, and social calls from billionaires, all with the expectation that these geniuses would soon join the ruling elite.At the helm of this business was Marc Tessier-Lavigne, a superstar neuroscientist and wealthy biotech executive. But
Auteur(s): Theo Baker
Date de parution: 5/19/2026 12:00:00 AM