Randall E. Stross

Business historian and journalist, longtime professor at San Jose State University; wrote reported histories of Edison, Microsoft, Google and Y Combinator.

Each book reports one organisation from inside over a defined stretch of time: a year among Y Combinator's batch companies, Benchmark's partners through the dot-com IPO wave, Edison's Menlo Park laboratory. The result records how venture firms and inventors actually spent their days, which reads as evidence rather than retrospective summary.

7 books of their own