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Instant National Bestseller Excellent San Francisco ChronicleBrotopia is than a business book Silicon Valley holds extraordinary power over our present lives as well as whatever utopia or nightmare might come nextNew York TimesSilicon Valley is a modern utopia where anyone can change the world Unless you re a woman.For women in tech, Silicon Valley is not a fantasyland of unicorns, virtual reality rainbows, and 3D printed lollipops, where millions of dollars grow on trees It s a Brotopia, where men hold all the cards and make all the rules Vastly outnumbered, women face toxic workplaces rife with discrimination and sexual harassment, where investors take meetings in hot tubs and network at sex parties.In this powerful expos , Bloomberg TV journalist Emily Chang reveals how Silicon Valley got so sexist despite its utopian ideals, why bro culture endures despite decades of companies claiming the moral high ground Don t Be Evil Connect the World and how women are finally starting to speak out and fight back.Drawing on her deep network of Silicon Valley insiders, Chang opens the boardroom doors of male dominated venture capital firms like Kleiner Perkins, the subject of Ellen Pao s high profile gender discrimination lawsuit, and Sequoia, where a partner once famously said they won t lower their standards just to hire women Interviews with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, and former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer who got their start at Google, where just one in five engineers is a woman reveal just how hard it is to crack the Silicon Ceiling And Chang shows how women such as former Uber engineer Susan Fowler, entrepreneur Niniane Wang, and game developer Brianna Wu, have risked their careers and sometimes their lives to pave a way for other women.Silicon Valley s aggressive, misogynistic, work at all costs culture has shut women out of the greatest wealth creation in the history of the world It s time to break up the boys club Emily Chang shows us how to fix this toxic culture to bring down Brotopia, once and for all. New Download Brotopia [ by ] Emily Chang [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr Look, I know how dangerous it is for a white, straight cis dude to write anything negative about a book like this It s almost stupid to try, but I m going to do it anyway.This book is a missed opportunity So much hype for it So much interest in it But so little promise fulfilled.A big problem with the book is that there s almost nothing in it you can t find in many of the articles and reporting of the metoo movement The section about sex parties was the most original bit of reporting, but Look, I know how dangerous it is for a white, straight cis dude to write anything negative about a book like this It s almost stupid to try, but I m going to do it anyway.This book is a missed opportunity So much hype for it So much interest in it But so little promise fulfilled.A...It sucks that the really long review I originally wrote was deleted, but I care about voicing this opinion SO MUCH that I m willing to give it another go Like other readers expecting an in depth, revelatory historiography on the tech industry and how it has come to tolerate the behavior that it does, this book is instead a collection of Silicon Valley s most offensive hits, slap dashed together withoutthan a cursory surface exploration for the profit of the author This book failed on It sucks that the really long review I originally wrote was deleted, but I care about voicing this opinion SO MUCH that I m willing to give it another go Like other readers expecting an in depth, revelatory historiography on the tech industry and how it has come to tolerate the behavior that it does, this book is instead a collection of Silicon Valley s most offensive hits, slap dashed together withoutthan a cursory surface exploration for the profit of the author This book failed on a lot of fronts, particularly when it came to illustrating any way to change things It wasn t all bad I enjoyed learning that women usually found e comme...This is a well written book You can tell Emily uses her Bloomberg speaking skills and translates them on paper about an important discussion about the lack of women in technology this specifically in Silicon Valley There are reasons for that and it s the bro environment Some CEOs and venture capitalists sound like utter douchbags who need punched in the face They just don t know how to act Women are the future of technology they are needed badly to be involvedwith the emergence of A This is a well written book You can tell Emily uses her Bloomberg speaking skills and translates them on paper about an important discussion abou...BROTOPIA BREAKING UP THE BOYS CLUB OF SILICON VALLEY popped onto my reading radar while speaking with a former colleague about her experiences going to B school Stanford and working at a prominent tech firm Salesforce in Silicon Valley My friend s graduate school project involved collecting and analyzing data about the gender disparity in the tech world Her research was the basis for a recent cover article in Atlantic Monthly and received a mention in this book by Emily Chang Overall, t BROTOPIA BREAKING UP THE BOYS CLUB OF SILICON VALLEY popped onto my reading radar while speaking with a former colleague about her experiences going to B school Stanford and working at a prominent tech firm Salesforce in Silicon Valley My friend s graduate school project involved collecting and analyzing data about the gender disparity in the tech world Her research was the basis for a recent cover article in Atlantic Monthly and received a mention in this book by Emily Chang Overall, this is a good book well wri...I had high hopes for this book to be the book that addresses the gender biases in tech and the workplace I was really hoping that a journalist at Bloomberg could shed some serious light on this timely issue Instead I found the book to be poorly research and one that mostly read like Page Six, name dropping and exaggerated story telling Perhaps she is planning to go work at TMZ One sentence on page 166 yes I read the whole book captures it all whatever happened, men in technology are final I had high hopes for this book to be the book that addresses the gender biases in tech and the workplace I was really hoping that a journalist at Bloomberg could shed some serious light on this timely issue Instead I found the book to be poorly research and one that mostly read like Page Six, name dropping and exaggerated story telling Perhaps she is planning to go work at TMZ One sentence on page 166 yes I read the whole bo...I couldn t get enough of this book You don t need to be someone who works in Silicon Valley or identify as female to appreciate this book As someone who works on the fringe of this world and with many of these companies and the women men of Silicon Valley I found the history lesson incredibly valuable I appreciated Chang s artful mix of data, anecdote, and interview to paint an informed picture of who, why, what, how So, much of the narrative and data validated my own experienc I couldn t get enough of this book You don t need to be someone who works in Silicon Valley or identify as female to appreciate this book As someone who works on the fringe of this world and with many of these companies and the women men of Silicon Valley I found the history lesson incredibly valuable I appreciated Chang s artful mix of data, anecdote, and interview to paint an informed picture of who, why, what, how So, much of the narrative and data validated my own experience in a way that felt incredibly empowering and helpful I see many of these orange and red flags in some of the organizations that employ me and am hopeful that armed with the information from Brotopia, I will be a better advocate and change maker for myself and others I ve also requested that the rest of my company read it so that we can have a jumping off place for conversations to address and prevent these pitfalls in...This book is well researched and well considered While Silicon Valley has been impacted by metoo, with some powerful men stepping down from their companies, it s not enough just to think in terms of a few bad apples the entire culture could use a reboot when it comes to gender relations, equality, and the broadening of the talent pool It s been shown that diverse teams produce better products foron this, I d recommend another book I ...I d hand out copies of this to everyone I know if I could The groundbreaking books I ve read by journalists lately are really setting my reading standards high and I LOVE it Emily Chang spent years writing this book and it shows through every page The stories she uncovers and facts she shares are wild and the overarc...This is probably the most important book ever written about Silicon Valley It s also very well written and very much a part of the current zeitgeist.A timely book about the sexism and misogyny that is unfortunately a prominent issue in the Silicon Valley and how it has hindered advancement for women, for companies, for the entire industry Examining everything from hiring practices to harassment to even some of the really zany stories such as sex parties Chang looks at how women in SV and surrounding culture have handled the issue and how it has affected them.I have to agree with a lot of the negative reviews The intriguing cover, the cat A timely book about the sexism and misogyny that is unfortunately a prominent issue in the Silicon Valley and how it has hindered advancement for women, for companies, for the entire industry E...

Brotopia
  • 23 February 2018
  • Kindle Edition
  • 317 pages
  • Emily Chang
  • Brotopia