How Smart Women Win in the New Economy
by Magdalena Yesil
Recommended by Ron Conway and Eric Schmidt
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Business, and Nonfiction.
Pioneering Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor Magdalena Yesil came to the United States in 1976 with two suitcases and $43, blind to the challenges she would face as a woman and immigrant in Silicon Valley. Today, she is best known as the first investor and a founding board member of Salesforce, the nowmultibillion dollar company that ushere...
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Business, and Nonfiction.
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“Accidental Presidents offers eight narrative portraits of men who succeeded to the U.S. presidency without election, using anecdote-rich scenes and readable context to show how personality and circumstance interact with office power. It’s strongest as a set of self-contained stories that make succession stakes concrete for non-specialist readers; it does not prioritize dense archival argument or exhaustive methodology, so expect some interpretive generalizations and repeated themes across cases. Use it for fast historical orientation rather than scholarly deep-dives.”
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