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unicorns were wished into being

I wandered through an expansive unfurnished wing of the office. Who was paying for this? And why? What exactly was a NerdWallet? A woman at the party had tried to explain the company to me, but since she was a newish hire, she didn’t seem quite sure, either.

[...] One described its executive ran…

—p.34 Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey Into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley Poor Winners (11) by Corey Pein
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Yelp driving local newspapers out of business

[...] Pelosi praised Yelp as “a model of good business” and an exemplar of the “social and economic engines that drive the American dream”—a dream “built on faith in the future, faith in the entrepreneurial spirit, faith in innovation, faith in technology, and really faith in community, because com…

—p.19 Poor Winners (11) by Corey Pein
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the loudest heretics

Naïve believers make the loudest heretics. That’s me. As a kid, I taught myself to code on a dusty old Commodore 64. By rights, I should have been a billionaire wunderkind before my sophomore year of college. But I screwed up. Instead of skipping class to build a world-changing website in a dorm ro…

—p.1 Introduction: Billionaire or Bust (1) by Corey Pein
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