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"Boy meets dot-com, boy falls for dot-com, boy flees dot-com in horror. So goes one of the most perversely hilarious love stories you will ever read, one that blends tech culture, hero worship, cat litter, Albanian economics, venture capitalism, and free bagels into a surreal cocktail of delusion.".
"In 1998, when Amazon.com went to temp agencies to recruit people, they gave them a simple directive: send us your freaks. Mike Daisey - slacker, onetime aesthetics major, dilettante - seemed perfect for the job. His ascension from lowly temp to customer service representative to business development hustler over the course of twenty-one dog years is the stuff of both dreams and nightmares.".
"With lunatic precision, Daisey describes the lightless cube farms in which book orders were scrawled on Post-its while technicians struggled to bring computers back online; the fourteen-hour days fueled by caffeine, fanaticism, and illicit day-trading from office desks made from doors; his strange compulsion to send free books to Norwegians; and the fevered insistence of BizDev higher-ups that the perfect business partner was Pets.com - the now-extinct company that spent all its assets on a sock puppet.".
"21 Dog Years is an epic story of greed, self-deception, and heartbreak, a wickedly funny anthem to an era of bounteous stock options and boundless insanity."--BOOK JACKET.
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Amazon.com (Firm), Electronic commerce, Internet bookstores, Biography, History, Internet industry, Internet, economic aspects, Book industries and tradePeople
Mike Daisey (1973-)Places
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21 Dog Years : A Cube Dweller's Tale
August 26, 2003, Free Press
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074323815X 9780743238151
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21 dog years: doing time @ Amazon.com
2002, Free Press
Hardcover
in English
0743225805 9780743225809
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