031. Anna Wiener. Toxic Startups. The Truth About Tech.
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Anna Wiener is a contributing writer to The New Yorker online, where she writes about Silicon Valley, start-up culture, and technology, and the author of tech memoir Uncanny Valley, which tells the story of Anna’s time working in Silicon Valley during her mid to late twenties.   Despite its tech world setting, Uncanny Valley is very much an everywoman story that will be familiar to any woman who’s ever worked in a sexist environment, and it touches on everything from gendered discrimination and emotional labour in the workplace, to why your work will never be your family, and the lies that companies often tell their employees. It’s also a brilliant exploration of the often toxic nature of tech startups, and the ethical quandaries that many of those companies are struggling to address.   Read Uncanny Valley (4th Estate) https://www.waterstones.com/book/uncanny-valley/anna-wiener/9780008296865 Find Anna on Twitter (@annawiener)   Get tickets for my FANE digital event A Night In With Otegha Uwagba on 7 July Pre-order my forthcoming book We Need To Talk About Money (4th Estate) via Amazon or Waterstones Produced by Chris Sharp and Naomi Mantin
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