by Andrew Keen
Even for Silicon Valley, Andy
Kessler
is a sickeningly
accomplished guy. Moving out to San Francisco in 1993, Kessler
co-founded Velocity Capital where, between 1996 and 2001, he transformed
$100 million into $1 billion. Not satisfied with being filthy rich,
Kessler then went onto becoming famous - publishing four non-fiction
books between 2003 ad 2006, including his highly entertaining short
history of digital technology, the personal computer and the Internet: How We
Got Here: A Silicon Valley and Wall Street Primer. And now Kessler has
just come out with his first published fiction, an irreverent novel
about artificial intelligence called Grumby which Michael Lewis
called "deliciously naughty".
So who better to talk about productivity, technology and investment than Kessler, a guy who knows better than most how we got to where we are in Silicon Valley, Wall Street and Main Street. In coming into our Techcrunch studios, Andy Kessler not only proved that he existed, but also confirmed that he has a highly controversial take on technological innovation, smart investment, job destruction and how entrepreneurs really create of wealth.
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