Kidder, Tracy (Author)
Random House
Physical Details: 259 pp.
Language: English
Many historians of computing will know Tracy Kidder’s name from his second book, The Soul of a New Machine (Little Brown,1981), which featured engineer Tom West managing a small group working on a tight deadline within a substantially antithetical Data General corporate culture. In this, the author's 11th book, Kidder returns to the world of computing. Kidder’s featured character is Paul English, who is most known for cofounding the Kayak travel website, which was sold in 2012 to Priceline for $1.8 billion. Anyone interested in the worlds of computer programming, technical leadership and product development, venture capital and entrepreneurship, and philanthropy circa 1990–2015 (the Web era to date) should find the book interesting. It is an easy read about a guy with a good number of eccentricities, so the book will also be fun for general readers who enjoy accounts of interesting personalities.
...MoreReview Russell, Andrew (2016) Review of "A truck full of money: One man's quest to recover from great success". IEEE Annals of the History of Computing (pp. 94-96).
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