![]() ![]() ![]() There were no crises in their vision … only opportunities. Essentially, she says: “It’s important to remember that Google is an ad platform and that Facebook is a surveillance platform.” I envied their sense of entitlement to the future. Microsoft is the “highly litigious Seattle-based software conglomerate”. Facebook is the “social network everyone hated” and Edward Snowden is “the NSA whistleblower who was back in media”. Deftly drawn characters are granted pseudonyms and companies are unnamed instead they are identified by cutting descriptions. In the book Wiener condenses five years of working at tech startups in Silicon Valley into a neat narrative about outsized male egos, dramatic wealth disparities and the psychological toll on young female employees.ĭespite its unsavoury and troubling contents – unregulated surveillance technology, ruthless bosses, casual sexual harassment – the book is a delight. “All writing is a sort of performance,” she says. It will come as no surprise to readers of her debut, Uncanny Valley, that Wiener is as quick witted in person as she appears on the page. “There’s a man wearing shiny pants, holding forth on artificial intelligence and ‘the Chinese hegemon’,” she says, eyes glimmering with amusement. In a leafy cafe courtyard in San Francisco, Anna Wiener is cradling a cup of tea while eavesdropping on the next table. ![]()
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