Julian Guthrie

An unforgettable story of four women who, through grit and ingenuity, became stars in the cutthroat, high-stakes, male dominated world of venture capital in Silicon Valley, and helped build some of the foremost companies of our time.In Alpha Girls , award-winning journalist Julian Guthrie takes readers behind the closed doors of venture capital, an industry that transforms economies and shapes how we live. We follow the lives and careers of four women who were largely written out of history - until now.Magdalena Yesil, who arrived in America from Turkey with $43 to her name, would go on to receive her electrical engineering degree from Stanford, found some of the first companies to commercialize internet access, and help Marc Benioff build Salesforce. Mary Jane Elmore went from the corn fields of Indiana to Stanford and on to the storied venture capital firm IVP - where she was one of the first women in the U.S. to make partner - only to be pulled back from the glass ceiling by expectations at home. Theresia Gouw, an overachieving first-generation Asian American from a working-class town, dominated the foosball tables at Brown (she would later reluctantly let Sergey Brin win to help Accel Partners court Google), before she helped land and build companies including Facebook, Trulia, Imperva, and ForeScout. Sonja Hoel, a Southerner who became the first woman investing partner at white-glove Menlo Ventures, invested in McAfee, Hotmail, Acme Packet, and F5 Networks. As her star was still rising at Menlo, a personal crisis would turn her into an activist overnight, inspiring her to found an all-women's investment group and a national nonprofit for girls.These women, juggling work and family, shaped the tech landscape we know today while overcoming unequal pay, actual punches, betrayals, and the sexist attitudes prevalent in Silicon Valley and in male-dominated industries everywhere. Despite the setbacks, they would rise again to rewrite the rules for an industry they love. In Alpha Girls , Guthrie reveals their untold stories.

A New York Times bestseller! The historic race that reawakened the promise of manned spaceflightA Finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Alone in a Spartan black cockpit, test pilot Mike Melvill rocketed toward space. He had eighty seconds to exceed the speed of sound and begin the climb to a target no civilian pilot had ever reached. He might not make it back alive. If he did, he would make history as the world’s first commercial astronaut.The spectacle defied reason, the result of a competition dreamed up by entrepreneur Peter Diamandis, whose vision for a new race to space required small teams to do what only the world’s largest governments had done before.Peter Diamandis was the son of hardworking immigrants who wanted their science prodigy to make the family proud and become a doctor. But from the age of eight, when he watched Apollo 11 land on the Moon, his singular goal was to get to space. When he realized NASA was winding down manned space flight, Diamandis set out on one of the great entrepreneurial adventure stories of our time. If the government wouldn’t send him to space, he would create a private space flight industry himself. In the 1990s, this idea was the stuff of science fiction. Undaunted, Diamandis found inspiration in an unlikely the golden age of aviation. He discovered that Charles Lindbergh made his transatlantic flight to win a $25,000 prize. The flight made Lindbergh the most famous man on earth and galvanized the airline industry. Why, Diamandis thought, couldn’t the same be done for space flight? The story of the bullet-shaped SpaceShipOne, and the other teams in the hunt, is an extraordinary tale of making the impossible possible. It is driven by outsized characters—Burt Rutan, Richard Branson, John Carmack, Paul Allen—and obsessive pursuits. In the end, as Diamandis dreamed, the result wasn’t just a victory for one team; it was the foundation for a new industry and a new age.

A Forbes Best Book of the YearThe America’s Cup, first awarded in 1851, is the oldest trophy in international sports, and one of the most hotly contested. In 2000, Larry Ellison, co-founder and billionaire CEO of Oracle Corporation, decided to run for the coveted prize and found an unlikely partner in Norbert Bajurin, a car radiator mechanic who had recently been named Commodore of the blue collar Golden Gate Yacht Club.Julian Guthrie’s The Billionaire and the Mechanic tells the incredible story of the partnership between Larry and Norbert, their unsuccessful runs for the Cup in 2003 and 2007, and their victory in 2010. With unparalleled access to Ellison and his team, Guthrie takes readers inside the design and building process of these astonishing boats, and the management of the passionate athletes who race them. She traces the bitter rivalries between Oracle and their competitors, including Swiss billionaire Ernesto Bertarelli’s Team Alinghi, and throws readers into exhilarating races from Australia and New Zealand to Valencia, Spain.The Billionaire and the Mechanic is a must-read for anyone interested in the race or this remarkable story.

A remarkable, uplifting story about one of the greatest medical breakthroughs of the 20th century In 1951 in Sydney, Australia, a fourteen-year-old boy named James Harrison was near death when he received a transfusion of blood that saved his life. A few years later, and half a world away, a shy young doctor at Columbia University realized he was more comfortable in the lab than in the examination room. Neither could have imagined how their paths would cross, or how they would change the world. In Good Blood, bestselling writer Julian Guthrie tells the gripping tale of the race to cure a horrible blood disease known as Rh disease that stalked families and caused a mother’s immune system to attack her own unborn child. The story is anchored by two very different men on two continents: Dr. John Gorman in New York, who would land on a brilliant yet contrarian idea, and an unassuming Australian whose almost magical blood—and his unyielding devotion to donating it—would save millions of lives. Good Blood takes us from Australia to America, from research laboratories to hospitals, and even into Sing Sing prison, where experimental blood trials were held. It is a tale of discovery and invention, the progress and pitfalls of medicine, and the everyday heroics that fundamentally changed the health of women and babies.

The Grace of Everyday Saints How a Band of Believers Lost Their Church and Found Their Faith by Guthrie, Julian. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,2011, Hardcover

The Billionaire and the Mechanic: How Larry Ellison and a Car Mechanic Teamed up to Win Sailing's Greatest Race, the Americas Cup.

Der America's Cup, erstmals 1851 ausgelobt, ist die älteste internationale Sporttrophäe – und bis heute heiß begehrt. Bis auf einen Schweizer "Ausrutscher" waren es in den letzten Jahrzehnten vor allem die Neuseeländer, die eine Art Daueranspruch auf den Pokal des America's Cup anmeldeten.Bis ... ja, bis Larry Ellison, milliardenschwerer Mitbegründer und Geschäftsführer des Softwareimperiums Oracle, sich im Jahr 2000 entschloss, die Trophäe nach Amerika zurückzuholen – und sich der Hilfe von Norbert Bajurin, eines Automechanikers und Commodore des Golden Gate Yacht Clubs, versicherte.Was die beiden ungleichen Partner auf die Beine stellten, um im Jahr 2010 den America's Cup in die USA zurückzuholen und schließlich im nervenzerfetzenden Finale 2013 unter völlig neuen Regeln zu verteidigen, ist das, was man gemeinhin als "ganz großes Kino" bezeichnet.Julian Guthrie, Journalistin des "San Francisco Chronicle", hat Hintergründe, Rivalitäten, Leidenschaft und Wissen um den Segelsport, also all jene Dinge, die Larry Ellison und Norbert Bajurin antreiben, gekonnt und hochspannend zusammengetragen.

Alpha Girls conta a incrível história de como um grupo de mulheres talentosas, determinadas e cheias de garra alcançou o sucesso no mundo da tecnologia, dominado por homens. No entanto, apesar do papel fundamental que elas desempenharam na construção de algumas das mais importantes empresas da atualidade, a essas mulheres foi negado um lugar na história. Neste livro, a premiada jornalista Julian Guthrie revela suas trajetórias que até hoje esperavam ser contadas.

Peter Diamandis est le fils d'un immigré grec qui rêvait de voir son fils devenir médecin. Mais à l'âge de huit ans, l'enfant assiste en direct à l'exploit d'Apollo XI se posant sur la lune. Son unique objectif devient alors «l'Espace». Quelques années plus tard, quand il apprend que la NASA abandonne les vols habités, il se lance dans l'une des plus grandes entreprises de notre siècle. Le gouvernement ne l'envoie pas dans l'espace ? Il créera sa propre industrie de vol spatial...Dans les années 1990, un tel projet relevait de la science-fiction mais Diamandis trouve son inspiration dans l'âge d'or de l'aviation. Si Lindbergh a effectué son premier vol transatlantique pour empocher 25 000 dollars, son aventure a fait de lui l'homme le plus célèbre du monde et il a galvanisé l'industrie de l'aviation. Pourquoi n'en serait-il pas de même pour l'espace ?C'est ainsi que le pilote d'essai Mike Melvill est devenu le premier astronaute commercial qui a dépassé la vitesse du son en 80 secondes. En fait, les petites équipes conçues par Diamandis ont réussi à faire ce que seuls les gouvernements les plus puissants avaient réalisé jusqu'ici. Le livre de Julian Guthrie relate cette aventure exceptionnelle à laquelle participent des personnages exceptionnels comme Richard Branson. En créant plusieurs sociétés consacrées au vol spatial privé et au lancement de microsatellites, Diamandis a réalisé son rêve : il a tracé un chemin vers une ère nouvelle.

The beginning of XPRIZE space travelWhy do billionaires from all over the world leave the planet and jump into the space industry?Innovation entrepreneurs like Peter Diamanis, Paul Allen, Richard Branson, Ansaris family, Rutan and Mike Melville, pioneers who have worked for the space travel world from all over the world, and the future of infinite possibilities that will open the space race of the new space race of the business industry at a glance.★★★ 2016 Amazon Bestsellers ★★★ 2016 New York Times Bestsellers - ★★★ 2016 Eugene E. Emme Aerospace Literature Awards ★★★ PEN Edward Wilson Science Prize Finalists | ★ 2016 Smithsonian Magazine selected excellent books (Wonderland, Grit simultaneously selected)★★★ The best books LinkedIns top writers read in 2016 ( , Hill Billys song) ★★★ Ten tops for geeks to read in 2017 by GEEKWIRE (Titan Tools simultaneous selection)