In this 2020 memoir, Anna Wiener offers a unique outsider's perspective into the dark underbelly of Silicon Valley's tech startups.

Silicon Valley presents an image of promising entrepreneurial hopefuls, disrupting society by creating innovative new technologies. All while making a cool billion dollars in the process.

On the inside, Silicon Valley's world of startups and tech companies tells a more sordid tale of privacy breaches and overt sexism.

Anna Wiener is a writer whose work has appeared in publications like The New Yorker, The New Republic, and The Atlantic.

Starting out in book publishing, Wiener went on to work for companies like GitHub and Stripe. Her non-tech background provided the unique viewpoint that forms the basis of this, her first book.

In this memoir about her time in the tech industry, Wiener uncovers the controversial inner workings of Silicon Valley startups.

With a literary and incisive style, Uncanny Valley shows the darker side of the environment in which the apps and websites we use everyday are forged.