Anna Wiener on disillusionment with startup culture

Channels with Peter Kafka

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Business News, News, Tv & Film, Technology

4.4 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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The New Yorker’s Anna Wiener chats with Recode’s Shirin Ghaffary about her new memoir, Uncanny Valley, which gives insight on her time working in the tech startup industry, and how being one of the few women in it, gave her a whole new perspective. Featuring: Anna Wiener (@annawiener) author and writer for The New Yorker Host: Shirin Ghaffary (@shiringhaffary), Reporter at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:41.5	Hi, I'm Shereen Gafari, a reporter for Recode. I'm filling in for Peter Kafka today, and I have here with me,
1:45.9	Anna Weiner. Anna is a contributing writer to the New Yorker, a former techie,
1:50.7	and an author of Uncanny Valley, a new memoir about working in the tech startup industry.
1:57.2	So I'm a huge fan of your writing from when your essay in the magazine N Plus One first came out about what it's like to sort of be an everyday tech worker. And that was back when
2:02.1	I was working at a tech startup as well. And I could really relate to it. It went viral
2:06.1	within my tech startup. And I know many others felt the same way. And now you've come out
2:11.4	with a book that was adapted from that essay, right? So could you tell us just a little bit more about yourself and
2:18.7	how you describe your book? Yeah, absolutely. I'm so curious about your background now. I'm
2:23.4	like ready to turn the table. I started working in the tech industry in early 2013, had a brief
2:31.4	stint at an e-book startup, and then moved out to San Francisco,
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