eBoys: The Tru Story of the Six Tall Men Who Backed eBay and Other Billion-Dollar Start-Ups

In eBoys, Randoll Stross takes us behind the scenes and inside the heads of the gutsy entrepreneurs who are financing the hottest business on the Web. The six tall men who satrted Benchmark, Silicon Valley's most exciting venture capital firm,  put themselves at the cutting edge fo teh new economt by backing billion-dollor start-ups like ebay and Webvan. the risks were enormous-but the rewards have proven to be staggering. Within two years, eBay's net worth grew from $20 million to more than $21 billion, while each Benchmark founding partner saw his own personal net worth soar by hundreds of millions of dollars.