![]() ![]() (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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