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092    338.47004|bPEI 
100 1  Pein, Corey,|eauthor. 
245 10 Live work work work die :|ba journey into the savage heart
       of Silicon Valley /|cCorey Pein. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bMetropolitan Books,|c2017. 
300    309 pages ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-304) and 
       index. 
520    At the height of the startup boom, journalist Corey Pein 
       set out for Silicon Valley with little more than a 
       smartphone and his wits. His goal: to learn how such an 
       overhyped industry could possibly sustain itself as long 
       as it has. Determined to cut through the clichés of big 
       tech—the relentless optimism, the incessant repetition of 
       vacuous buzzwords—Pein decided that he would need to take 
       an approach as unorthodox as the companies he would soon 
       be covering. To truly understand the delirious reality of 
       a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, he knew, he would have to 
       inhabit that perspective—he would have to become an 
       entrepreneur. Thus he begins his journey—skulking through 
       gimmicky tech conferences, pitching his over-the-top 
       business ideas to investors, and interviewing a cast of 
       outrageous characters: cyborgs and con artists, Teamsters 
       and transhumanists, jittery hackers and naive upstart 
       programmers whose entire lives are managed by their 
       employers—who work endlessly and obediently, never 
       thinking to question their place in the system. 
650  0 Internet industry|zCalifornia. 
650  0 High technology industries|zCalifornia. 
650  0 Technological innovations|zCalifornia. 
650  0 New business enterprises|zCalifornia. 
650  0 Entrepreneurship|zCalifornia.