Uncanny Valley

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Insightful journey into Silicon Valley's heart.

"Uncanny Valley" could resonate with you if you're fascinated by the tech world's allure and its hidden underbelly. Anna Wiener's candid storytelling might give you an intimate glimpse of the tech bubble's realities. This book isn't just about tech; it's a personal narrative that mirrors the broader societal shifts we're all part of. If you're pondering the socio-cultural impact of the tech industry, this memoir doesn't spare any punches.

  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Memoir & Autobiography (2020)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Uncanny Valley

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ISBN: 9780374278014
Authors: Anna Wiener
Publisher: MCD
Date of Publication: 2020-01-14
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Business, Biographies & Memoirs, Science
Goodreads rating: 3.64
(rated by 33925 readers)

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The prescient, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir of our digital age. In her mid-twenties, at the height of tech industry idealism, Anna Wiener—stuck, broke, and looking for meaning in her work, like any good millennial—left a job in book publishing for the promise of the new digital economy. She moved from New York to San Francisco, where she landed at a big-data startup in the heart of the Silicon Valley bubble: a world of surreal extravagance, dubious success, and fresh-faced entrepreneurs hell-bent on domination, glory, and, of course, progress. Anna arrived amidst a massive cultural shift, as the tech industry rapidly transformed into a locus of wealth and power rivaling Wall Street. But amid the company ski vacations and in-office speakeasies, boyish camaraderie and ride-or-die corporate fealty, a new Silicon Valley began to emerge: one in far over its head, one that enriched itself at the expense of the idyllic future it claimed to be building. Part coming-of-age story, part portrait of an already-bygone era, Anna Wiener’s memoir is a rare first-person glimpse into high-flying, reckless startup culture at a time of unchecked ambition, unregulated surveillance, wild fortune, and accelerating political power. With wit, candor, and heart, Anna deftly charts the tech industry’s shift from self-appointed world
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Insightful journey into Silicon Valley's heart.

"Uncanny Valley" could resonate with you if you're fascinated by the tech world's allure and its hidden underbelly. Anna Wiener's candid storytelling might give you an intimate glimpse of the tech bubble's realities. This book isn't just about tech; it's a personal narrative that mirrors the broader societal shifts we're all part of. If you're pondering the socio-cultural impact of the tech industry, this memoir doesn't spare any punches.

  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Memoir & Autobiography (2020)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.