"When Michael Lewis first met him, Sam Bankman-Fried was the world's youngest billionaire and crypto's Gatsby. CEOs, celebrities, and leaders of small countries all vied for his time and cash after he catapulted, practically overnight, onto the Forbes billionaire list. Who was this rumpled guy in cargo shorts and limp white socks, whose eyes twitched across Zoom meetings as he played video games on the side? In Going Infinite Lewis sets out to answer...

"By now, we all know the mythology of the digital revolution: it improved efficiency, eliminated waste, and fostered a boom in innovation. But as business reporter David Sax shows in this clear-sighted, entertaining book, not all innovations are written in source code. In fact, businesses that once looked outdated are now springing with new life. Behold the Revenge of Analog. Sax has found story after story of entrepreneurs, small business owners,...

Set up and manage a high-performance, accessible, and secure Blockchain framework. This comprehensive guide delivers hands-on coverage of the development, validation, and deployment of Blockchain technology. Written by a pair of computing experts, the book demonstrates each topic through a start-to-finish Blockchain evolution. You will get full details on AWS risk and compliance as well as programming and architectural best practices. Blockchain:...

The promise of decentralized finance (DeFi for those up on their financial lingo) as a disruptor to financial institutions makes it must-know for anyone involved in finance. DeFi For Dummies provides an easy-to-understand option for unraveling the past, present, and future of DeFi. Understand current DeFi applications, including how to build basic applications on the leading platforms, and get a look into the future's most promising new DeFi solutions....

We are at a tipping point in retail history. While consumers are profiting from the convenience of instant gratification, rapidly advancing technologies are transforming the way goods are transported and displacing workers in ways never before seen. In Arriving Today, Christopher Mims goes deep, far, and wide to uncover how a single product, from creation to delivery, weaves its way from a factory on the other side of the world to our doorstep. He...

Teaches you all about e-commerce and how to create your own online shop using WordPress and WooCommerce. Regardless of a business's size, e-commerce helps level the playing field, increases a business's exposure, allows companies to reach customers globally, and streamlines the fulfillment process. In the past, e-commerce websites were expensive, technically difficult, and time-consuming to create but not anymore. WordPress and WooCommerce together...

At a time when many traditional retailers are closing their physical stores, digitally native vertical brands such as Bonobos, which specializes in men's apparel, and Warby Parker, which specializes in eyeglasses, are aggressively expanding into offline locations. In this article, the authors explore two related trends: (1) the expansion of online-first retailers into offline stores that "supercharge" customer value and (2) the transformation of stores...

"This book explains our way of thinking about how to move forward in digitalizing your business by taking small steps that yield observable, measurable results in the near term. Think of the book as a lantern shining a light on the path that will take you from digital laggard to digital leader. We explain how to pinpoint projects that are bite-sized and in synch with your highest business priorities and show how digital enablers who straddle the technology...