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Product Description With Zoom, Fortune magazine extends one of its most successful franchises, 40 Under 40, to bring you original insight on the best-kept secrets of top entrepreneurs, business leaders, and rising tech stars.Discover how Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh built a uniquely attractive corporate culture, how Under Armour founder Kevin Plank took on Nike, and what Marissa Mayer told herself before leaping from a safe post at Google to the high-risk top job at Yahoo.Zoom features the fascinating profiles of these and other young innovators and provides listeners with tips to fast-track their own career success. Additional contributors include: Omar Akhtar; Katie Benner; Ryan Bradley; Erika Fry; Miguel Helft; Michal Lev-Ram; Pattie Sellers; Anne VanderMey; and Kurt Wagner.Praise for Zoom:"Zoom showcases dozens of today's brightest young business stars.… An entertaining and accessible read." —Reid Hoffman, cofounder and chairman, LinkedIn; coauthor, The Start-Up of You"Make way, Boomers—here come the Zoomers.… A smart and lively book." —Daniel H. Pink, author of To Sell is Human and Drive About the Author Daniel Roberts is a magazine journalist and book critic in New York. He has been on the writing staff of Fortune since 2010 and is the lead reporter on the magazine's 40 Under 40 franchise. He has also written for a wide range of other publications, in print and online, including Sports Illustrated, Salon and The Daily Beast. He has reported news for the Wall Street Journal, New York Daily News and New York Post. Roberts grew up in Massachusetts and is a graduate of Middlebury College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.Leigh Gallagher is Senior Editor at Large at Fortune magazine, where she writes and edits feature stories and is a co-chair of the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit and Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference.