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The Thinking Machine
Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
2025
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**Winner of the FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year AwardNamed a Best Book of 2025 by The Economist“Framed as a biography of Jensen Huang, the only CEO Nvidia has ever had, the book is also something more interesting and revealing: a window onto the intellectual, cultural, and economic ecosystem that has led to the emergence of superpowerful AI.” —James Surowiecki, The Atlantic“A lively biography . . . The story of how Nvidia became the hott...
How Music Got Free
A Story of Obsession and Invention
2015
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**Now a Paramount+ docuseries narrated by Method Man and produced by Marshall "Eminem" Mathers, LeBron James, and moreOne of Billboard’s 100 Greatest Music Books of All Time, by the author of The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World’s Most Coveted MicrochipWhat happens when an entire generation commits the same crime?**How Music Got Free is a riveting story of obsession, music, crime, and money, featuring visionaries and c...
The Street Singer
A Tale of Sex, Money and Power in a Changing Brooklyn
2012
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The Street Singer follows flat-broke New York CIty subway musician, Jason Spirit, as he stumbles into contact with Thaddeus Hoover, the high-powered developer with a plan to build the Barclays Arena and bring Brooklyn a National Basketball Association team - the first major professional sports team since baseball's Dodgers left for Los Angeles in 1958. He ends up playing project supporters and opponents against each other as he plots a song he's written to BScott, the world's most famous r...
How Music Got Free
The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy
- Narrated by
- Stephen Witt
Unabridged
9 hours 13 min
2015
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"What happens when an entire generation commits the same crime?"How Music Got Free is a riveting story of obsession, music, crime, and money, featuring visionaries and criminals, moguls and tech-savvy teenagers. It’s about the greatest pirate in history, the most powerful executive in the music business, a revolutionary invention and an illegal website four times the size of the iTunes Music Store.Journalist Stephen Witt traces the secret history o...
The Thinking Machine
Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
- Narrated by
- Stephen Witt
Unabridged
10 hours 17 min
2025
EN
**Winner of the FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year AwardNamed a Best Book of 2025 by The Economist“Framed as a biography of Jensen Huang, the only CEO Nvidia has ever had, the book is also something more interesting and revealing: a window onto the intellectual, cultural, and economic ecosystem that has led to the emergence of superpowerful AI.” —James Surowiecki, The Atlantic“A lively biography . . . The story of how Nvidia became the hott...
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