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The Silicon Valley Dream Was Always a Fantasy

2020/1/17
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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future

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In 2013, Anna Wiener moved from New York to San Francisco to join the city’s booming tech scene. Over the course of four years, she worked at three companies: an e-book startup, a data analytics company, and an open-source software platform. Then, her infatuation with the tech industry took a turn.

On this week’s show, an insider’s perspective on the intoxicating promise and disappointment of Silicon Valley during the mid-decade boom.

Guest: Anna Wiener): author of *Uncanny Valley *and contributing writer for the New Yorker. 

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