How We Got Here

Best-selling author Andy Kessler ties up the loose ends from his provocative book, Running Money, with this history of breakthrough technology and the markets that funded them. Expanding on themes first raised in his tour de force, Running Money, Andy Kessler unpacks the entire history of Silicon Valley and Wall Street, from the Industrial Revolution to computers, communications, money, gold and stock markets. These stories cut (by an unscrupulous editor) from the original manuscript were intended as a primer on the ways in which new technologies develop from unprofitable curiosities to essential investments. Indeed, How We Got Here is the book Kessler wishes someone had handed him on his first day as a freshman engineering student at Cornell or on the day he started on Wall Street. This book connects the dots through history to how we got to where we are today.

安迪·凯斯勒（Andy Kessler）

1980年，安迪·凯斯勒毕业于康奈尔大学电子工程系。

他先在贝尔实验室担任了5年的芯片设计师和程序员，之后加入华尔街成为一名证券分析师。很快，他因发现科技趋势而被《机构投资者》杂志评为“明星分析师”。

后来，他担任了风险投资基金经理，创立了对冲基金Velocity Capital Management。

在20世纪90年代后期，安迪因为成功地抓住科技股的大趋势而迅速地把1000万美元的基金变成了10亿美元。而在科技股崩溃前，他又将资金归还给投资者，最终全身而退，成为华尔街的奇迹。

作为华尔街传奇投资者和畅销书作家，凯斯勒著有《华尔街的肉》、《操纵金钱》、《我们如何来到现在》。