![]() ![]() When it came to the companies and start-ups she worked for, the lack of naming also pointed to how similar they are. Despite moving into tech, she still kept a foot in the literary world by doing occasional book reviews for a Brooklyn-based magazine, n+1 which was where the initial idea for Uncanny Valley came about. “I always enjoyed writing but felt maybe my utility was helping other people who were better writers put their books out in the world rather than focus on my own writing as a career path,” she explains when we chat on the phone from a hotel in Washington D.C as part of her book tour. Though she had worked in publishing, a career as a writer wasn’t part of her initial game plan. ![]() Whilst reading about an e-reading app promising to disrupt the book industry she decides to apply for a role, which brought her into the tech world and, eventually, saw her working for Github, the open-source code platform which was later acquired by Microsoft for $7.5 billion. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENTĪ New Yorker by birth, Wiener graduated into the peak of the 2009 recession before settling into a job as an assistant in publishing. ![]()
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