Average Joe

Be the Silicon Valley Tech Genius

By: Shawn Livermore

Narrated by: Mike Lenz

The book covers numerous tech entrepreneurial founders and software developers, and the exciting brands or products that they created. It goes deep on a handful of them, narrowly divulging exactly how a few software developers and startup founders created breakthrough tech products like Gmail, Dropbox, Ring, Snapchat, Bitcoin, Groupon, and more. It highlights and unpacks the general hero-worship that the media and our own minds practice about tech founders and tech entrepreneurs. This idealization of tech success can create a paradox, preventing average tech professionals from their own successful journeys. This book provides hard evidence that anyone in tech can create, and anyone on the peripheral of tech can break through to the center where innovation, creativity, and opportunity meet.

The anecdotes, stories, evidence, facts, arguments, logic, principles, and techniques provided in this book have helped individuals and businesses engage in slow creation cycles, improve the morale of their development teams, and increased their delivery potential of their technology solutions overall.

©2020 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (P)2020 Gildan Media

Incredible book for tech enterpreneurs.

One of the most insightful books I have heard in a long time. Highly recommend.

Must read for technology professionals

If you are a technology professional I highly recommend listening to this book!

Each week I talk to the brightest minds in technology on ModernCTO Podcast and getting to meet the author of this book (great interview if you’re interested) and then read this book, very impressed!