![]() ![]() (It’s Patrick Collison, the CEO of the payment processor Stripe.) Slate’s Dan Kois wrote a guide to the book’s proper nouns, and confessed that he spent “forever” trying to identify the friend of Wiener’s who found out that he was a billionaire while the two of them were eating lunch, before finding his name in the acknowledgments. The book about the four years that followed has already been widely praised, and it was regarded as a “most anticipated” for months, thanks in part to the thrill of its insider gossip-any reader could spend weeks guessing at which companies and CEOs and whistle-blowers are referred to obliquely in its pages. She moved to California to work at a mysterious data-analytics company, then an open-source software platform that had just been through a famous scandal. She left publishing for her first tech job, at a New York ebook start-up, in 2013, and almost immediately fell for the industry’s charms. ![]() ![]() “It was easy to get me to want something,” the New Yorker columnist Anna Wiener confesses in her tech-industry memoir, Uncanny Valley, out today. ![]()
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