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Mariana Mazzucato debunks the myth of the state as a static bureaucratic organization only needed for the ‘basics’ and to ‘fix’ market failures, leaving dynamic entrepreneurship and innovation to the private sector. Case studies, from the Internet to the green revolution, reveal the opposite situation, whereby the private sector only invests after the entrepreneurial state has made the high-risk bold investments.
50 years ago, Sir Richard Branson started his first business. In his new autobiography, the Virgin Founder shares his personal, intimate thoughts on five decades as the world’s ultimate entrepreneur. He shares the secrets that have seen his family business grow from a student magazine into a global brand, his dreams of private citizens flying to space develop from a childhood fantasy to the brink of reality and his focus shift from battling bigger rivals to changing business for good.
The autobiography of Jo Malone, one of the world’s most successful businesswomen and entrepreneurs.
The first things Sophia Amoruso sold online wasn’t fashion. It was a stolen book. At age 17 she was a dumpster-diving, shoplifting anarchist. By 29 she was the founder and CEO of Nasty Gal, a $100 million plus fashion empire. Filled with brazen wake-up calls, cunning and frank observations, and behind-the-scenes stories from Nasty Gal’s meteoric rise, this book is more than Amoruso’s story, it is a book for anyone seeking a unique path to success – even when that path is winding as all hell and lined with naysayers.
The Jimmy Choo founder’s personal and candid account of her life in the fashion business. Tamara Mellon shares the whole larger-than-life story, from her troubled childhood and her time as a young editor at Vogue to her partnership with cobbler Jimmy Choo and her very public relationships.
Inventor. Visionary. Genius. Dropout. Adopted. Founder of Apple. Steve Jobs was all of these things. This is the story of the man who thought different.
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