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Garden of the World examines how overlapping waves of Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino immigrants fundamentally altered the agricultural economy and landscape of the Santa Clara Valley as well as white residents' ideas about race, gender, and what it meant to be an American family farmer.

Intro -- AUTHOR'S NOTE -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION: THE BILLIONAIRE'S FACTORY -- Section 1: BEFORE THE PITCH -- THE GOLDEN ROLODEX PROMISE -- WHAT'S MY START-UP WORTH? -- BEING INVESTMENT-READY -- ATTORNEYS AND PAPERWORK -- MAKE THE PITCH ENTERTAINING -- FORGET THE HOCKEY STICK, IT'S NEAR VERTICAL -- Section 2: THE PITCH -- PITCH DECK ESSENTIALS -- SLIDE 3: 'THE PROBLEM WE SOLVE' PROBLEM -- SLIDE 4: 'THE SOLUTION' -- SLIDE 5: 'MARKET SIZE' -- SLIDE 6: 'PRODUCT /TECHNOLOGY ARCHITECTURE / HOW IT WORKS' -- SLIDE 7: 'SCALABILITY' -- SLIDE 8: 'INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY' -- THE INVISIBLE 'CUSTOMER' SLIDE -- SLIDE 9: 'GO TO MARKET' -- SLIDE 10: 'COMPETITION' -- SLIDE 11: 'REVENUE PROJECTIONS/BUSINESS MODEL' -- SLIDE 12: 'ADVISORS' -- SLIDE 13: 'USE OF FUNDS' -- SLIDE 14: 'EXIT' -- DETERMINING A VALUATION -- Section 3: AFTER THE PITCH -- CLOSING INVESTORS -- CONVERTIBLE NOTES -- HOW VCS CAN HELP WITH START-UP MARKETING -- CROWDSOURCING VIDEO VIRAL FINANCING -- STRATEGIC INVESTORS -- WHAT FOUNDERS LEARN IN BOARD MEETINGS -- NEGOTIATIONS AND ACQUISITIONS -- Section 4: LIVING IN THE VALLEY: A VC'S PERSPECTIVE -- THE CONTRARIAN -- GREEN BANANAS -- THE MOTHER NET -- ENTREPRENEUR IN RESIDENCE -- OFF THE RADAR -- THE STANFORD DISH -- READING THE TEA LEAVES -- WHAT STEVE JOBS DID FOR ENTREPRENEURS -- THE SOCIAL CONSCIOUS MOVEMENT -- GRASSROOTS AND THE BLOCK -- BILLBOARDS ON THE US 101 -- Section 5: THE FUTURE IS NOW -- THE CHINESE CASH SYNDICATES -- THE 'I' GENERATION -- DON'T LOOK BACK -- THE FUTURE -- GLOSSARY.

Asperger's Chic -- The Gluten-Free Open Marriage -- Hippy-Dippy Coding Communes -- The Never-Ending School -- The All-Meat Lunch -- Alpha Girls and Beta Boys -- The Immortals -- Five Minutes of Fame -- The New New Money -- When Do You Beg Forgiveness and When Do You Ask for Permission? -- Is This Really Right? -- We Will Be God.

"A concise and feisty takedown of the all-style, no-substance tech ventures that fail to solve our food crises. The Problem with Solutions combines an analysis of the rise of tech company solution culture with findings from actual research on the sector's ill-informed attempts to address the problems of food and agriculture. As this seductive approach continues to infiltrate universities and academia, Guthman challenges us to reject apolitical and self-gratifying techno-solutions and develop the capacity and willingness to respond to the root causes of these crises. Solutions, she argues, are a product of our current condition, not an answer to it."

What do "nature" and "place" mean, and who gets to define these terms? Key to Heppler's work is the idea that these questions reflect and determine what, and who, matters in any conversation about the environment. Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism vividly traces that idea through the linked histories of Silicon Valley and environmentalism in the West.

In her mid-twenties, at the height of tech industry idealism, Anna Wiener--stuck, broke, and looking for meaning in her work, like any good millennial--left a job in book publishing for the promise of the new digital economy. She moved from New York to San Francisco, where she landed at a big-data startup in the heart of the Silicon Valley bubble: a world of surreal extravagance, dubious success, and fresh-faced entrepreneurs hell-bent on domination, glory, and, of course, progress. Anna arrived amidst a massive cultural shift, as the tech industry rapidly transformed into a locus of wealth and power rivaling Wall Street. But amid the company ski vacations and in-office speakeasies, boyish camaraderie and ride-or-die corporate fealty, a new Silicon Valley began to emerge: one in far over its head, one that enriched itself at the expense of the idyllic future it claimed to be building. Part coming-of-age-story, part portrait of an already-bygone era, Anna Wiener's memoir is a rare first-person glimpse into high-flying, reckless startup culture at a time of unchecked ambition, unregulated surveillance, wild fortune, and accelerating political power. With wit, candor, and heart, Anna deftly charts the tech industry's shift from self-appointed world savior to democracy-endangering liability, alongside a personal narrative of aspiration, ambivalence, and disillusionment. Unsparing and incisive, Uncanny Valley is a cautionary tale, and a revelatory interrogation of a world reckoning with consequences its unwitting designers are only beginning to understand. --

Intro -- Contents -- The Valley on the Hill | Fred Turner -- Photographs and Stories | Mary Beth Meehan -- Cristobal -- Ravi and Gouthami -- Victor -- Warren -- Justyna -- Teresa -- Mary -- Diane -- Abraham and Brenda -- Ariana and Elijah -- Mark -- Imelda -- Richard -- Leslie -- Geraldine -- Jolea -- Melissa and Steve -- Jon -- Gee and Virginia -- Branton and Shirley -- Konstance -- Aurora -- Erfan -- Ted -- Elisa and Family -- Elizabeth -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments.