While Sillicon Valley likes to think of itself as the epicenter of the tech universe, New York attracts its fair share of ambitious entrepreneurs determined to make their mark. Among them are Mack McAllister, the it-boy visionary of the moment trying to take his app to the next level; Isabel, a social media ninja working for him a bit too closely; and Katya, an ambitious Russian emigre journalist desperate for a scoop. When a scandal erupts in the lower Manhattan loft building where all three work, they quickly discover just how small a world the Big Apple’s tech community can be. Doree Shafrir’s debut is a sharp, hugely entertaining story of youth, ambition, love, money and technology’s inability to hack human nature.
Doree Shafrir is an American author and executive editor at BuzzFeed. She was previously an editor at Rolling Stone, Gawker and The New York Observer. She lives in Los Angeles with husband Matt Mira, a comedy writer and podcaster.
With Jessica Grose she founded the Postcards From Yo Momma website. She and Grose co-authored a book based on Postcards From Yo Momma, titled Love, Mom: Poignant, Goofy, Brilliant Messages from Home, which was published by Hyperion in March 2009. Shafrir’s first novel, STARTUP, will be published by Little, Brown in 2017.
I grew up outside of Boston, went to college in Philadelphia, lived in New York for nine years, and now live in LA with my husband Matt Mira, a comedy writer and podcaster, and our mastiff/Shar Pei mix Beau, a dog.
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