Live Work Work Work Die By Corey Pein

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.