Sophia of Silicon Valley
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"During the heady years of the tech boom, incorrigibly frank Sophia Young lucks into a job that puts her directly in the path of Scott Kraft, the eccentric CEO of Treehouse, a studio whose animated films are transforming movies forever. Overnight, Sophia becomes an unlikely nerd whisperer. As Scott Kraft's right-hand woman, whip-smart Sophia is in the eye of the storm, sometimes floundering, sometimes nearly losing relationships and her health, but ultimately learning what it means to take charge of her own future the way the men around her do. But when engineer/inventor Andre Stark hires her to run his company's investor relations, Sophia discovers that the big paycheck and high-status career she's created for herself may not be worth living in the toxic environment of a boys-club gone bad"--
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Hm.. I feel I learned something about the Silicon Valley IPO life, but this novel leaves a bitter taste, with the end message being that you don't need to have a vision or an idea to become a SF bigshot, you only need to want to be in control. And instead of being an empowering message - the protagonist is an Asian woman after all - it comes off as a bit hollow. Especially since it didn't feel clear that's what the novel was building towards.
