7/6/2023 0 Comments Anna wiener mixpanelWiener interviewed former colleagues and friends, engaging in what she calls “a dance around everyone else’s NDA”. There were no crises in their vision … only opportunities. Essentially, she says: “It’s important to remember that Google is an ad platform and that Facebook is a surveillance platform.” I envied their sense of entitlement to the future. Microsoft is the “highly litigious Seattle-based software conglomerate”. Facebook is the “social network everyone hated” and Edward Snowden is “the NSA whistleblower who was back in media”. Deftly drawn characters are granted pseudonyms and companies are unnamed instead they are identified by cutting descriptions. Despite its unsavoury and troubling contents – unregulated surveillance technology, ruthless bosses, casual sexual harassment – the book is a delight.
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