How to Rule the World

Theo Baker

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Language: English

Published by Penguin LLC US Mai 2026, 2026

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Neuware -Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by The New York Times"Poignant, maddening, and genuinely hilarious, How to Rule the World is to be devoured—and fast, before Stanford buys up and sets fire to every copy. (Talk about a burn book!)" —Mark Leibovich, #1 New York Times bestselling author of This TownWinner of the George Polk Award for his investigation that brought down Stanford’s president, Theo Baker offers a revelatory and gripping account of Silicon Valley hubrisSlush funds. Shell companies. Yacht parties. This is life for Silicon Valley’s favored teenagers.Seventeen-year-old Theo Baker showed up for freshman year at Stanford University as a tech-obsessed coder. It seemed like paradise. There were Rodin sculptures next to nuclear laboratories and inventors lounging with Olympians. But Baker soon discovered a culture that embraced corner-cutting, that vested infinite excess and access in the hands of kids with few safeguards to catch bad behavior.Stanford, he realized, was less a school than a business. Its annual budget was nearly twice that of Harvard or Yale and higher than those of 116 countries. The product Students. Especially those special few identified as the next trillion-dollar startup founders. For them, there were secret societies, "pre-idea" funding offers, and social calls from billionaires, all with the expectation that these geniuses would soon join the ruling elite.At the helm of this business was Marc Tessier-Lavigne, a superstar neuroscientist and wealthy biotech executive. But when Baker joined the student newspaper and started poking around the Stanford president’s record, he discovered never-reported allegations of research misconduct in studies published across two decades bearing Tessier-Lavigne's name.Only one month into college and thousands of miles from home, Baker began receiving anonymous letters, going on stakeouts, and tracking down confidential sources. High-powered lawyers and public relations teams were hired to attack his reporting. Stanford opened an investigation into its own leader. And by the end of the year, Tessier-Lavigne was out as president.This is the incredible journey of a reluctant teenage reporter who uncovered a story that shook the scientific world and became front-page news across the country. It is also an unprecedented inside view of the students learning to rule the world—and what they’re learning from those who already do.How to Rule the World is a shocking, hilarious, and moving debut, showcasing Silicon Valley’s training ground as never before. 336 pp. Englisch.…

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Title
How to Rule the World
Author
Theo Baker
Publisher
Penguin LLC US Mai 2026
Publication year
2026
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Neu
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Language
English
ISBN 10
0593832833
ISBN 13
9780593832837
Item weight
522 grams
Dimensions
240x163x32 mm

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