![]() ![]() This sets off a chain of events that intertwines them all. Katya grabs the phone and says she’s going to give it back to Isabel, which she does, but not before taking a picture of the screen. It vibrates, and a message from Mack appears: three pictures of his erect penis with the text “don’t tell me u don’t miss this.” ![]() ![]() Sabrina’s boss, Isabel, stops to talk to them, and forgets her phone when she walks away. Their lives come together at a party which Katya and Sabrina are both attending less than happily. ![]() Startup, the debut novel by Buzzfeed culture writer Doree Shafrir, has three point-of-view characters: Mack McAllister, founder of TakeOff, an app that hopes to make people happier by reminding them to take time for themselves throughout the day Katya Pasternack, a reporter for TechScene, a startup that writes clickbait-y content about other startups and Sabrina Choe Blum, a social media manager at TakeOff who is married to an editor at TechScene. Works of nonfiction like The Everything Store and Move Fast and Break Things have come at it from various angles, but the nuanced nature of the culture lends itself best to novel form, and now that novel is here. The TV comedy Silicon Valley has satirized the tech world. From Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel’s politics to Uber CEO Travis Kalanick’s arrogance to the spectacular failures of Theranos and Juicero, there is hardly an industry that currently deserves it more. There are few industries more ripe for a send-up than the technology industry. ![]()
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