Immersive Business 07

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Business history as complete audiobooks, free. In this volume: Edward Thorp and James Simons, from blackjack to hedge funds; John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil; Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jay Gould and Thomas Edison; Jacob Fugger, Nathan Rothschild and J. P. Morgan; Dee Hock and Visa; Rob Kalin and Etsy; Marc Lore; Ben Chestnut and Mailchimp; David Baszucki; Luis von Ahn and Duolingo; Yvon Chouinard of Patagonia; Frederick Terman in Palo Alto. Fifty books on founders, investors and the companies they built. Narrated with a synthetic voice. ministryofspark.com

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    William Hewlett, David Packard and Hewlett-Packard - THE VALLEY BEFORE IT WAS ONE Book 2 - Part 04

    Palo Alto, 1947 to 1970. A newly incorporated company of a hundred and eleven people, smaller than it had been during the war, spends twenty-three years turning a set of shop-floor habits into a written philosophy, and a hundred and eleven people into sixteen thousand. It takes forty acres of land a university was forbidden to sell, hands out bonus checks by hand, writes six objectives at a country inn in Sonoma, sells sixteen-dollar shares to its own machinists, and in a recession cuts every paycheck by a tenth rather than cut anybody. Almost every practice later called the culture of Silicon Valley was first written down here, by two engineers making it up as they went, who did not know they were founding anything at all. Covers William Hewlett, David Packard, and Hewlett-Packard. Narrated with a synthetic voice.

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    William Hewlett, David Packard and Hewlett-Packard - THE VALLEY BEFORE IT WAS ONE Book 2 - Part 03

    Palo Alto, 1947 to 1970. A newly incorporated company of a hundred and eleven people, smaller than it had been during the war, spends twenty-three years turning a set of shop-floor habits into a written philosophy, and a hundred and eleven people into sixteen thousand. It takes forty acres of land a university was forbidden to sell, hands out bonus checks by hand, writes six objectives at a country inn in Sonoma, sells sixteen-dollar shares to its own machinists, and in a recession cuts every paycheck by a tenth rather than cut anybody. Almost every practice later called the culture of Silicon Valley was first written down here, by two engineers making it up as they went, who did not know they were founding anything at all. Covers William Hewlett, David Packard, and Hewlett-Packard. Narrated with a synthetic voice.

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    William Hewlett, David Packard and Hewlett-Packard - THE VALLEY BEFORE IT WAS ONE Book 2 - Part 02

    Palo Alto, 1947 to 1970. A newly incorporated company of a hundred and eleven people, smaller than it had been during the war, spends twenty-three years turning a set of shop-floor habits into a written philosophy, and a hundred and eleven people into sixteen thousand. It takes forty acres of land a university was forbidden to sell, hands out bonus checks by hand, writes six objectives at a country inn in Sonoma, sells sixteen-dollar shares to its own machinists, and in a recession cuts every paycheck by a tenth rather than cut anybody. Almost every practice later called the culture of Silicon Valley was first written down here, by two engineers making it up as they went, who did not know they were founding anything at all. Covers William Hewlett, David Packard, and Hewlett-Packard. Narrated with a synthetic voice.

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    William Hewlett, David Packard and Hewlett-Packard - THE VALLEY BEFORE IT WAS ONE Book 2 - Part 01

    Palo Alto, 1947 to 1970. A newly incorporated company of a hundred and eleven people, smaller than it had been during the war, spends twenty-three years turning a set of shop-floor habits into a written philosophy, and a hundred and eleven people into sixteen thousand. It takes forty acres of land a university was forbidden to sell, hands out bonus checks by hand, writes six objectives at a country inn in Sonoma, sells sixteen-dollar shares to its own machinists, and in a recession cuts every paycheck by a tenth rather than cut anybody. Almost every practice later called the culture of Silicon Valley was first written down here, by two engineers making it up as they went, who did not know they were founding anything at all. Covers William Hewlett, David Packard, and Hewlett-Packard. Narrated with a synthetic voice.

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    Frederick Terman, William Hewlett and David Packard - THE VALLEY BEFORE IT WAS ONE Book 1 - Part 04

    Palo Alto, 1930 to 1947. A university with more land than money, a professor who could not place his best students, and two of those students who had to leave California to find work. Frederick Terman read an article about a bridge circuit, handed the idea to William Hewlett, and said there might be a business in it. Hewlett put a light bulb in the feedback loop. David Packard took leave from General Electric for fifty-five dollars a month. On the first day of 1939 the two men put five hundred and thirty-eight dollars into a joint account and tossed a coin for the order of their names. Eight years later the partnership became a corporation, and the land across the road was still empty. Covers Frederick Terman, William Hewlett, David Packard, Hewlett-Packard, and Stanford University. Narrated with a synthetic voice.

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    Frederick Terman, William Hewlett and David Packard - THE VALLEY BEFORE IT WAS ONE Book 1 - Part 03

    Palo Alto, 1930 to 1947. A university with more land than money, a professor who could not place his best students, and two of those students who had to leave California to find work. Frederick Terman read an article about a bridge circuit, handed the idea to William Hewlett, and said there might be a business in it. Hewlett put a light bulb in the feedback loop. David Packard took leave from General Electric for fifty-five dollars a month. On the first day of 1939 the two men put five hundred and thirty-eight dollars into a joint account and tossed a coin for the order of their names. Eight years later the partnership became a corporation, and the land across the road was still empty. Covers Frederick Terman, William Hewlett, David Packard, Hewlett-Packard, and Stanford University. Narrated with a synthetic voice.

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    Frederick Terman, William Hewlett and David Packard - THE VALLEY BEFORE IT WAS ONE Book 1 - Part 02

    Palo Alto, 1930 to 1947. A university with more land than money, a professor who could not place his best students, and two of those students who had to leave California to find work. Frederick Terman read an article about a bridge circuit, handed the idea to William Hewlett, and said there might be a business in it. Hewlett put a light bulb in the feedback loop. David Packard took leave from General Electric for fifty-five dollars a month. On the first day of 1939 the two men put five hundred and thirty-eight dollars into a joint account and tossed a coin for the order of their names. Eight years later the partnership became a corporation, and the land across the road was still empty. Covers Frederick Terman, William Hewlett, David Packard, Hewlett-Packard, and Stanford University. Narrated with a synthetic voice.

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    Frederick Terman, William Hewlett and David Packard - THE VALLEY BEFORE IT WAS ONE Book 1 - Part 01

    Palo Alto, 1930 to 1947. A university with more land than money, a professor who could not place his best students, and two of those students who had to leave California to find work. Frederick Terman read an article about a bridge circuit, handed the idea to William Hewlett, and said there might be a business in it. Hewlett put a light bulb in the feedback loop. David Packard took leave from General Electric for fifty-five dollars a month. On the first day of 1939 the two men put five hundred and thirty-eight dollars into a joint account and tossed a coin for the order of their names. Eight years later the partnership became a corporation, and the land across the road was still empty. Covers Frederick Terman, William Hewlett, David Packard, Hewlett-Packard, and Stanford University. Narrated with a synthetic voice.

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Business history as complete audiobooks, free. In this volume: Edward Thorp and James Simons, from blackjack to hedge funds; John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil; Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jay Gould and Thomas Edison; Jacob Fugger, Nathan Rothschild and J. P. Morgan; Dee Hock and Visa; Rob Kalin and Etsy; Marc Lore; Ben Chestnut and Mailchimp; David Baszucki; Luis von Ahn and Duolingo; Yvon Chouinard of Patagonia; Frederick Terman in Palo Alto. Fifty books on founders, investors and the companies they built. Narrated with a synthetic voice. ministryofspark.com

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    Ministry of Spark
  • Years Active
    2026
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    200
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    Clean
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