Biographies are prominent sights on non-fiction shelves, and many become classics. Business bios? Less so. But a new entry to the genre – Geoffrey Cain’s Samsung Rising: The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant that Set out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech (Penguin Random House, 2020) – is a corker.
By Andrew Salmon
Asia Times
Mar 20, 2020
Journalist Geoffrey Cain leaves the reader hanging at the end of his book, Samsung Rising, out this week, wondering how Korea’s supreme court will rule on Lee’s retrial on bribery charges.
By Donald Kirk
Forbes
Mar 19, 2020
Geoffrey Cain, a journalist who has reported for The Economist and the Wall Street Journal, does his material proud. Unlike their Silicon Valley counterparts, Asia’s tech champions lack the type of leaders that are sufficiently well known to carry a business biography: no mercurial Steve Jobs or Elon Musk and certainly no college dropouts such as Mark Zuckerberg or Elizabeth Holmes of scandal-ridden Theranos to act as storytelling device.
By Louise Lucas
Financial Times
Mar 19, 2020
The following is an excerpt from Geoffrey Cain’s new book “Samsung Rising: The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech,” about the South Korean company’s journey from grocery store to tech giant.
By Andie Corban and Kai Ryssdal
Marketplace
Mar 17, 2020
Long before “Parasite” won the Oscar for Best Picture and K-pop groups performed on “The Tonight Show,” South Korea’s best-known export was Samsung, an obscure maker of cheap microwaves that Western expatriates in the country had taken to calling “Sam-suck.” Today, Samsung is a household name, and a bigger smartphone maker than Apple. But its path to the top was strewn with secret deals, price fixing, bribery, tax evasion and more, all of it overseen by an ultrasecretive, ultrarich family ready to use every means at its disposal to stay in command.
By Raymond Zhong
The New York Times
Mar 17, 2020
Samsung Rising is written by Geoffrey Cain, a technology reporter who specializes in Asia-based reporting. The new book is based on interviews with hundreds of people relaying the story of Samsung’s rise and its various (Apple-shaped) challenges along the way.
By Luke Dormehl
Cult of Mac
Mar 9, 2020
As far as revealing anecdotes go, you’d be hard-pressed to find one that offers a more apt summation of the years-long battle between Samsung and Apple than one that Geoffrey Cain includes in his new book Samsung Rising which is set to be published next week.
By Andy Meek
BER
Mar 9th, 2020
Geoffrey Cain, author of ‘Samsung Rising,’ tackles South Korea’s chaebols, the biggest swing vote in South Korea and activist investing within Asia during a conversation with The Deal for its Activist Investing Today podcast.
By Ronald Orol
The Deal Podcast
Mar 5th, 2020
Three years after explosive allegations of graft and corruption brought down the government of Asia’s fourth-largest economy, South Korea’s chaebol culture will again come under the microscope when Samsung Electronics Co. heir Jay Y. Lee returns to court.
By Sohee Kim
Bloomberg
Oct 24, 2019
The specter of online shopping is haunting Korea’s giant Shinsegae group and its billionaire vice chairman Chung Yong-jin, who runs Shinsegae, Korea’s second-largest retailer after Lotte by sales, and mass-market retail subsidiary E-mart.
By Donald Kirk
Forbes
Jul 9, 2019
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Geoffrey Cain is an award-winning author of bestselling books on leadership, business, technology, and finance.
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