#21 Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
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Let's go ahead and jump into today's book. Which is Masters of Doom, How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture by David Cushner. So it's about John Romero and John Carmack. Who are the people that created Some of the most iconic video games of all time. Doom. Most of the book
It's basically about not only the partnership that they created in their early twenties, but then what tort tears them apart later on. And then it also goes into which I find the most interesting part. The differences of their philosophies on business. And I'll be going chronologically through the book. So I'm gonna start in the introduction. For a new generation, Carmac and Romero personified an American dream. They were self made individuals who had transformed their personal passions into a big business.
A new art form. And a cultural phenomenon. Their story made them the unlikeliest of antiheroes. Esteemed by both Fortune five hundred executives And computer hackers alike.
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