A penetrating exploration of the surprising ways that waste occurs in our businesses, our communities, and our lives-and how it can be reduced or even eliminated. Byron Reese owns and publishes GigaOm, the most respected tech media site in the world, with over one million monthly technology and business readers. Reese holds a number of patents, including patents on crowdsourcing and pychographics, has founded several tech startups, and headed R&D at the multi-billion-dollar company eHow, which receives more than 150 million monthly visitors. He is the author of The Fourth Age and Infinite Progress.
Scott Hoffman is one of the founding partners of Folio Literary Management. A former Washington lobbyist, he has an MBA in finance from NYU. As a business owner, he has come to see waste in his business and in the larger world everywhere. He divides his time between New York City and Austin, Texas.
