Jerry Kaplan's _StartUp_ is a classic which shows the dark underbelly of deal-making and press-release creation, and why we can't have nice things if they aren't being made so as to ensure the profit of a dominant player: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1171250.Startup

Contrast it with: https://www.folklore.org/MacBasic.html

and the early history of VisualBASIC (and wonder how things might have played out had the Mac had a nice development environment out the gate)

and for management interactions see: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...