Before moving to San Francisco, Wiener lives a ‘fragile but agreeable life’ in New York, subsisting on a meagre salary as an assistant at a Manhattan literary agency. If they’re lucky, they become some of the wealthiest entrepreneurs of their generation.Įnter Anna Wiener’s memoir, Uncanny Valley: a chronicle of five years working in Silicon Valley in the early 2010s. Like moths to light, budding computer engineers and software programmers are drawn to the Valley, hoping to pioneer the next technological innovation, the next viral app.
Think Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Airbnb, Uber, Tinder, Snapchat. A typical start-up has simple ambitions: become a big, rich company – and do it fast. A region of the San Francisco Bay Area, the Valley is the birthplace of the modern start-up, a mecca for tech pilgrims and venture capitalists. If our technology-infused world were a great beast, the engorged heart of it would be Silicon Valley.
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