The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze by Laura Shin

The How To Make Money: An honest guide to going from an idea to a six-figure business by Nafisa Bakkar

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/521956 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/521956] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The How To Make Money: An honest guide to going from an idea to a six-figure business Author: Nafisa Bakkar Narrator: Nafisa Bakkar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 48 minutes Release date: February 2, 2023 Genres: Business & Career Development Publisher's Summary: How do I start a business on a budget? How do I find my first 100 customers and make my first £100k? How do I build a network and get my business noticed? Whether you want to transform a fledgling side-hustle into a full-time endeavour or simply have an idea that’s keeping you up at night, this is the ultimate blueprint for building your own business. With no network, no capital and no previous experience, Nafisa built her business from scratch and has helped hundreds of founders to do the same. Now, she wants to share her honest, game-changing advice. From how to nail sales and branding to understanding how to build a network, Nafisa lifts the lid on business culture – and questions everything you think you know about the business world.

Going Public: How Silicon Valley Rebels Loosened Wall Street’s Grip on the IPO and Sparked a Revolution by Dakin Campbell

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/511897 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/511897] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Going Public: How Silicon Valley Rebels Loosened Wall Street’s Grip on the IPO and Sparked a Revolution Author: Dakin Campbell Narrator: Brian Troxell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 47 minutes Release date: July 26, 2022 Genres: Business & Career Development Publisher's Summary: A behind-the-scenes tour of the high-stakes world of IPOs and how a visionary band of startup executives, venture capitalists, and maverick bankers has launched a crusade to upend the traditional IPO as we know it. GOING PUBLIC is a character-driven narrative centered on the last five years of unparalleled change in how technology startups sell shares to the public. Initial public offerings, or IPOs, are typically the first time retail investors can own a piece of the New Economy companies promising to rewire economic rules. Selling IPOs is also one of the most profitable businesses for Wall Street investment banks, who have spent the last 40 years protecting their profits. In an era when algorithms and software have made the financial markets more efficient, the pricing of IPOs still relies on human judgment.   In 2018, executives at music-streaming service Spotify sought to upend the status quo. Led by a trim and understated CFO, Barry McCarthy, and a shy but brilliant founder, Daniel Ek, they took a wild idea and forged something new. GOING PUBLIC explores how they got comfortable with the risk, and how they lobbied securities watchdogs and exchange staff to rewrite the regulations. Readers will meet executives at disruptive companies like Airbnb, DoorDash, venture capitalists, and even some bankers who seized on Spotify’s labor and used it to knock Wall Street bankers off the piles of fees they’d been stacking for so long.   GOING PUBLIC weaves in earlier attempts to rethink the IPO process, introducing readers to one of Silicon Valley’s earliest bankers, Bill Hambrecht, whose invention for selling shares online was embraced by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they auctioned their shares in 2004. And it examines the recent boom in blank-check companies, those Wall Street insider deals that have suddenly become the hottest way to enter the public markets. GOING PUBLIC tells stories from inside the room, and more.

The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze by Laura Shin

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/506156 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/506156] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze Author: Laura Shin Narrator: Laura Shin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 13 minutes Release date: February 22, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Business & Career Development Publisher's Summary: The story of the idealists, technologists, and opportunists fighting to bring cryptocurrency to the masses. In their short history, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have gone through booms, busts, and internecine wars, recently reaching a market valuation of more than $2 trillion. The central promise of crypto endures—vast fortunes made from decentralized networks not controlled by any single entity and not yet regulated by many governments. The recent growth of crypto would have been all but impossible if not for a brilliant young man named Vitalik Buterin and his creation: Ethereum. In this book, Laura Shin takes readers inside the founding of this novel cryptocurrency network, which enabled users to launch their own new coins, thus creating a new crypto fever. She introduces readers to larger-than-life characters like Buterin, the Web3 wunderkind; his short-lived CEO, Charles Hoskinson; and Joe Lubin, a former Goldman Sachs VP who became one of crypto’s most well-known billionaires. Sparks fly as these outsized personalities fight for their piece of a seemingly limitless new business opportunity. This fascinating book shows the crypto market for what it really is: a deeply personal struggle to influence the coming revolution in money, culture, and power.

Competing in the New World of Work: How Radical Adaptability Separates the Best from the Rest by Kian Gohar, Noel Weyrich, Keith Ferrazzi

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/525423 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/525423] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Competing in the New World of Work: How Radical Adaptability Separates the Best from the Rest Author: Kian Gohar, Noel Weyrich, Keith Ferrazzi Narrator: Chris Henry Coffey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 41 minutes Release date: February 15, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Business & Career Development Publisher's Summary: The #1 New York Times bestselling author on how to win in a world of unprecedented changeYou’ve shed antiquated systems and processes. You went all-in on digital. Your teams settled into new, often better, ways of doing things. But did your organization change enough to stay competitive in the post-pandemic world? Did you fully leverage the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to leap forward and grow stronger? Are you shaping the new environment to your advantage? If not, it’s not too late to learn from the best. New York Times #1 bestselling author Keith Ferrazzi, along with coauthors Kian Gohar and Noel Weyrich, shows leaders how to shape their organizations and practices to remain competitive in a new, post-pandemic context. Based on an ambitious global research initiative involving thousands of executives, innovators, and changemakers who redefined their strategies, business models, organizational systems, and even their cultures, Competing in the New World of Work:• Offers a bold new vision for the organization of the future• Reveals the workplace innovations that emerged during the pandemic• Defines the new model of leadership—radical adaptability—for sustaining continuous change throughout the coming years of opportunity and transformationCompeting in the New World of Work is both your inspiration and your road map to embracing new realities, motivating talent, and winning bold frontiers.

Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy by Erich Schwartzel

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/525591 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/525591] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy Author: Erich Schwartzel Narrator: Sean Patrick Hopkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 55 minutes Release date: February 8, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Business & Career Development Publisher's Summary: 'This is a fascinating book. It will educate you. Schwartzel has done some extraordinary reporting.'  — The New York Times Book Review   “In this highly entertaining but deeply disturbing book, Erich Schwartzel demonstrates the extent of our cultural thrall to China. His depiction of the craven characters, American and Chinese, who have enabled this situation represents a significant feat of investigative journalism. His narrative is about not merely the movie business, but the new world order.” —Andrew Solomon, author of Far from the Tree and The Noonday Demon An eye-opening and deeply reported narrative that details the surprising role of the movie business in the high-stakes contest between the U.S. and China From trade to technology to military might, competition between the United States and China dominates the foreign policy landscape. But this battle for global influence is also playing out in a strange and unexpected arena: the movies.   The film industry, Wall Street Journal reporter Erich Schwartzel explains, is the latest battleground in the tense and complex rivalry between these two world powers. In recent decades, as China has grown into a giant of the international economy, it has become a crucial source of revenue for the American film industry. Hollywood studios are now bending over backward to make movies that will appeal to China’s citizens—and gain approval from severe Communist Party censors. At the same time, and with America’s unwitting help, China has built its own film industry into an essential arm of its plan to export its national agenda to the rest of the world. The competition between these two movie businesses is a Cold War for this century, a clash that determines whether democratic or authoritarian values will be broadcast most powerfully around the world.   Red Carpet is packed with memorable characters who have—knowingly or otherwise—played key roles in this tangled industry web: not only A-list stars like Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, and Richard Gere but also eccentric Chinese billionaires, zany expatriate filmmakers, and starlets who disappear from public life without explanation or trace. Schwartzel combines original reporting, political history, and show-biz intrigue in an exhilarating tour of global entertainment, from propaganda film sets in Beijing to the boardrooms of Hollywood studios to the living rooms in Kenya where families decide whether to watch an American or Chinese movie. Alarming, occasionally absurd, and wildly entertaining, Red Carpet will not only alter the way we watch movies but also offer essential new perspective on the power struggle of this century.