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Creative disruptions

Books review of 'Wild Ride', 'The Airbnb Story', 'The Upstarts' and 'Move Fast And Break Things'

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Walter Isaacson
WILD RIDE
Inside Uber’s Quest for World Domination 
Adam Lashinsky 
Portfolio/Penguin
228 pages; $28

THE AIRBNB STORY
How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions... and Created Plenty of Controversy 
Leigh Gallagher 
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 236 pages; $28

THE UPSTARTS 
How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World 
Brad Stone
Little, Brown & Company; 372 pages; $30

MOVE FAST AND BREAK THINGS
How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy 
Jonathan Taplin 
Little, Brown & Company; 308 pages; $29

During the week of Barack Obama’s inauguration in January 2009, three young would-be entrepreneurs — Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia