No Filter

Winner of the FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2020 'Deeply researched and highly entertaining.' The Times 'Lively and revealing.' Economist 'Clear-eyed and objective.' New York Times The inside story of the how Instagram took over the world. Drawing on interviews with all the key figures at Instagram, No Filter vividly recreates the rise of the most successful photo app in history: from its origins in a Silicon Valley coffee shop, to its unprecedented billion-dollar acquisition by Facebook, to its founders' dramatic clashes with their new boss, Mark Zuckerberg. Along the way, it explores how Instagram has changed society - encouraging businesses to prioritise their aesthetic above all else, forging a new economy of digital entrepreneurs, and rewiring how a generation thinks about celebrity and success. The result is the definitive story of how a simple platform revolutionised tech, business, and popular culture. Instagram has remade us all in its image. This book reveals how. _____ One of the best books of the year according to: The Times | Fortune | Financial Times | Inc. | Economist | Newsweek 'Brilliant . . . Vivid reporting and electric story-telling.' Ashlee Vance, author of Elon Musk 'Deeply sourced . . . A compelling tale of app jealousy.' Financial Times 'Frier captures the power Instagram came to wield in society even among those who didn't use it.' Washington Post

Winner of the FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2020 'Deeply researched and highly entertaining.' The Times 'Lively and revealing.' Economist 'Clear-eyed and objective.' New York Times The inside story of the how Instagram took over the world. Drawing on interviews with all the key figures at Instagram, No Filter vividly recreates the rise of the most successful photo app in history: from its origins in a Silicon Valley coffee shop, to its unprecedented billion-dollar acquisition by Facebook, to its founders' dramatic clashes with their new boss, Mark Zuckerberg. Along the way, it explores how Instagram has changed society - encouraging businesses to prioritise their aesthetic above all else, forging a new economy of digital entrepreneurs, and rewiring how a generation thinks about celebrity and success. The result is the definitive story of how a simple platform revolutionised tech, business, and popular culture. Instagram has remade us all in its image. This book reveals how. _____ One of the best books of the year according to: The Times | Fortune | Financial Times | Inc. | Economist | Newsweek 'Brilliant . . . Vivid reporting and electric story-telling.' Ashlee Vance, author of Elon Musk 'Deeply sourced . . . A compelling tale of app jealousy.' Financial Times 'Frier captures the power Instagram came to wield in society even among those who didn't use it.' Washington Post

Writer and former model Paulina Porizkova pens a series of intimate, introspective, and enlightening essays about the complexities of womanhood at every age, pulling back the glossy magazine cover and writing from the heart. Born in Cold War Czechoslovakia, Paulina Porizkova rose to prominence as a model, appearing on her first Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover in 1984. As the face of Est?e Lauder in 1989, she was one of the highest-paid models in the world. When she was cast in the music video for the song "Drive" by The Cars, it was love at first sight for her and frontman Ric Ocasek. He was forty at the time, and Porizkova was nineteen. The decades to come would bring marriage, motherhood, a budding writing career; and later sadness, loneliness, isolation, and eventually divorce. Following her ex-husband's death--and the revelation of a deep betrayal--Porizkova stunned fans with her fierce vulnerability and disarming honesty as she let the whole world share in her experience of being a woman who must start over. This is a wise and compelling exploration of heartbreak, grief, beauty, aging, relationships, re-invention and finding your purpose. In these essays, Porizkova bares her soul and shares the lessons she's learned--often the hard way. After a lifetime of being looked at, she is ready to be heard.