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In 2013, at the age of 25, Anna Wiener decides to quit her precarious job as an editorial assistant at a literary agency in New York because of the seductive promises of burgeoning tech startups. An adventure that will lead her to move to San Francisco and sign for a new data analysis company. In the effervescent micro-world of Silicon Valley, she will rub shoulders with young and enthusiastic entrepreneurs in a feverish race for innovation, wealth and, of course, power. With singular lucidity, Anna Wiener reveals the dark side of Silicon Valley -the false ideals, the endless days, the alienating corporatism, the endemic misogyny-, and walks the fine line between utopia and dystopia in which technological emporiums that seek to change radically the world but that endanger our societies: from the inexorable control that apps and networks exert over us, to the brutal inequality that has disfigured the identity of its epicenter, the city of San Francisco. An exceptional chronicle, which reads like a novel, about an all-powerful industry and the people who make it up, which has positioned its author as one of the essential voices to decipher this dizzying digital age.