Reporter Alexandra Wolfe’s biting but admiring tale of Silicon Valley, and the women and men whose hubris and ambition are changing the globe.

Each year, teenagers from around the world head to Silicon Valley to hatch an idea, start a company, strike it rich, and become powerful and popular. In “a jauntily paced anthropological take a look at Northern California’s techtopia” (Bloomberg Businessweek), reporter and columnist for The Wall structure Street Journal Alexandra Wolfe follows three of the upstarts about The Valley from the Gods: A Silicon Valley Tale who’ve “ceased out” of college and true to life in the hopes of becoming another Tag Zuckerberg or Elon Musk.

Meet the billionaires who go to schooling golf clubs for thirty-minute “body system slams” made to participate in the start-up schedule; attend celebrations where people devour peanut butter-and-jelly sushi rolls; and day and seduce in a romantic culture in which thick glasses, baggy denim jeans, and a t-shirt may be the outfit of any sex image (and where a coat and tie up symbolize mediocrity). Through Wolfe’s eyes, we learn how they time and marry, the way they gown and live, how they plot and dream, and exactly how they possess created a business world and an economic order which has made us all devotees of them.

In her blistering and hysterical examination of this new ruling class, Wolfe “offers a revealing peek inside the privilege, power, and profligacy of Silicon Valley” (Town & Country). Valley of the Gods “catches the absurdity of the brave ” new world “, pierces the buzz, but also conveys the dreams as well as the passions that may shape a world’s economy” (USA TODAY).