High Stakes, No Prisoners: A Winner's Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars

Charles Ferguson's hilarious, hard-boiled journey into the heart of high-tech darkness has become the signal book of the start-up generation. Ferguson took a good idea, started a company, and sold it to Microsoft for $133 million -- all in less than two years. High Stakes, No Prisoners is both a blistering inside account of how he did it and a brilliant tour of the brutally competitive and utterly unique world of Silicon Valley.

CHARLES H. FERGUSON founded Vermeer Technologies with Randy Forgaard in 1994. Previously, Ferguson consulted to the White House and some of the world's leading high-tech companies. He has written for the Harvard Business Review, the New York Times, and Foreign Policy, and is the coauthor (with Charles R. Morris) of the critically acclaimed Computer Wars. He currently divides his time between economic policy research and high technology investing.