David Blue

1682 days ago

"The message was clear and intoxicating: society valued our contributions and, by extension, us. Still, the C.E.O. motivated us with fear. 'We are at war,' he would say, his jaw tense. We would look down at our bottles of kombucha and nod gravely."

Four Years in Startups

newyorker.com

Depending on whom you ask, 2012 represented the apex, the inflection point, or the beginning of the end for Silicon Valley’s startup scene—what cynics called a bubble, optimists called the future, and my future co-workers, high on the fumes of world-historical potential, breathlessly called the