Summary of Anna Wiener's Uncanny Valley

By IRB Media

Get the Summary of Anna Wiener's Uncanny Valley in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: 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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Dec 9, 2021
• ISBN: 9781669343394

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#1

The author worked for a small literary agency in Manhattan. She lived a relatively carefree life, except for her social anxiety.

#2

The author worked as a freelance proofreader and copyeditor for several years, but she hated it. She was not very fond of the internet, either. In the manner of many twentysomethings, her life was affectingly analog.

#3

The author had a difficult time empathizing with the tech industry, as she was a bookseller, and the two were constantly compared.

#4

The publishing industry is extremely competitive, and it only gets more so as more and more people get into the business of writing books. As the book publishing industry continues to shrink, so does your average salary.

#5

The author was a twenty-five-year-old publishing assistant who was secretly ashamed about the fact that she could not financially support herself. She disliked the fact that her parents were effectively subsidizing a successful literary agency.

#6

The author joined the e-book startup in 2013, after a series of ambiguous and casual interviews. The founders were ambitious and clean-cut, and shared the author's aspirations of building a successful company.

#7

The startup had millions in funding and a table full of employees, but the app itself was still in private alpha. Only a handful of people knew about it.

#8

The author was