Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley

Corey Pein is a regular contributor to The Baffler, where he writes a column and hosts the podcast "News from Nowhere." A longtime investigative reporter and former staff writer for the Willamette Week, he has also written for Slate, Salon, Foreign Policy, The American Prospect, and the Columbia Journalism Review, among other publications. He

To truly understand the delirious reality of a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, he knew, he would have to inhabit that perspectivehe would have to become an entrepreneur. A scathing exploration into the heart of Silicon Valley, laying bare the greed, hubris, and retrograde politics of an industry that aspires to radically transform society for its own benefitAt the height of the startup boom, journalist Corey Pein set out for Silicon Valley with little more than a smartphone and his wits. Determined to cut through the clichés of big techthe relentless optimism, the incessant repetition of vacuous buzzwordsPein decided that he would nee

About the AuthorCorey Pein is a regular contributor to The Baffler, where he writes a column and hosts the podcast "News from Nowhere." A longtime investigative reporter and former staff writer for the Willamette Week, he has also written for Slate, Salon, Foreign Policy, The American Prospect, and the Columbia Journalism Review, among other publications. He lives in Portland, Oregon.