Anna Wiener
2 SeriesAnna Wiener is a tech culture writer for The New Yorker, focusing on startup culture and technology. She debuted in 2020 with her book, "Uncanny Valley," which details her experiences working in Silicon Valley startups.
Anna Wiener's memoir, "Uncanny Valley," chronicles her career transition from book publishing to the tech industry in her mid-twenties. Moving from New York to San Francisco, she joins a big-data startup during a significant cultural shift in tech. Wiener's account captures the industry's evolution from a self-proclaimed savior to a democracy-endangering liability. Her narrative exposes how the tech world amassed wealth and power, often at the expense of the idealistic future it promised to build. "Uncanny Valley" has been celebrated on numerous best-of lists and became a top seller.
