The following podcast contains explicit language. Hello and welcome to the Valley of Genius edition of Sleep Money, your guide to the business

and finance news of the Week.

I'm Felix Salmon, I'm joined by Anna Shimansky.

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And by Emily Peck of The Huffington Post.

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And by Adam Fisher, who is the author of the book named

Valley of Genius the uncensored history of Silicon Valley although I'm not quite

sure if there were censored histories of Silicon Valley, although I'm not quite sure if there were censored histories of Silicon Valley.

In any case, it's this amazing oral history of Silicon Valley where Adam, you talked to,

and we're just going to say everybody who pretty much everybody and

you got them on tape and we are going to listen to some of that tape we're going to work out what it tells us about Silicon Valley.

We're going to listen to a bunch of little clips and at the end of it all, we're going to talk to Charles

Duhig about Elon Musk because I feel like that is the apotheosis and the ultimate

culmination of what Silicon Valley has become and he wrote this amazing piece in Wired magazine

about just how impossible it is to work for him. We are going to talk about the

financial basis of Silicon Valley. We are going to talk about the managerial basis of

Silicon Valley. We are going to talk about the crazy party basis of Silicon

Valley and we are going to talk about the iPhone because you can't talk about the

Silicon Valley without talking about the iPhone. All of that is coming up on

sleet money. So Max Jacob on Slate Money.

So Max Jacobs, producer extraordinaire,

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