Inside the Cult of Kibu: And Other Tales of the Millennial Gold Rush
In the spring of 2000, Lori Gottlieb was lured away from Stanford Medical School to become editor-in-chief of "Kibu.com", a high-profile Silicon Valley start-up dubbed in the make-it-up-as-you-go-along Internet Zeitgeist as anything from a "digital lifestyle brand" to "Yahoo! for Gen Y, with an estrogen slant." Gottlieb and Jacobs weave together Gottlieb's experiences at Kibu with those of fellow travellers - from media icon Kurt Andersen to Public Enemy rapper Chuck D - and present a collective oral history of America's capitalistic culture at its wackiest. Featuring a tapestry of voices - venture capitalists and engineers, receptionists and lawyers, advertising executives and CEOs, party planners and pundits, media moguls and MBAs - the book of is a reflection of what happens when business, technology, and popular culture combine and ignite in a spectacular display of euphoria and delusion.