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Title: Iterating Grace
Subtitle: Heartfelt Wisdom and Disruptive Truths from Silicon Valley's Top Venture Capitalists
Author: Koons Crooks
Narrator: John Hodgman
Format: Unabridged
Length: 19 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-15-15
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes
Genres: Comedy, Satire
Publisher's Summary:
What is this tiny audiobook? Who is this Koons Crooks? With its privately printed, anonymously produced 140-copy first printing, Iterating Grace became the talk of summer 2015 in the tech world.
From Buzzfeed to Tumblr to Fusion, people were puzzled and enthralled by the story of Koons Crooks, a young man who took the Twittered musings of the Silicon Valley elite to heart - and ended up on a profoundly unexpected path, leaving behind only the lovingly hand-calligraphed tweets that had meant so much to him. His story struck an immediate chord. There were competing efforts to identify the author of Iterating Grace; blog posts and lengthy comment threads pointed fingers at writers all over the country, from Robin Sloan to Susan Orlean to Dave Eggers. Other early theories supposed it was the tip of an elaborate marketing scheme, and soon all would be revealed. But gradually it became clear that it was simply this: a small piece of literary art, perfectly pitched and driven by a Twain-like bemused outrage, by a creator who did not want to be identified and would not explain anything beyond what the satirical fable said for itself.
Disruptive innovators whose tweets are illustrated in Iterating Grace include: Austen Allred, cofounder of Grasswire; Sam Altman, president of Y Combinator; Marc Andreessen, coauthor of Mosaic, cofounder of Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz; Jeff Bussgang, VC at Flybrige Capital; Tony Conrad, cofounder and CEO of about.me; Benedict Evans, VC at Andreessen Horowitz; Brad Feld, VC at Foundry Group; and many more.
Members Reviews:
I wish I could set up a robot that would continually roll its eyes at this until the end of time
This thing is a pamphlet, and I paid ten bucks for it. I thought it was a real book. It just didn't cross my mind to check the tiny type notating the length, because usually, books are book-length. In my opinion, this should have been marketed more for what it is--a short story.
It IS creative, but the satirical critique of the hyper-hipster, techy millennials is way too heavy handed. I would appreciate this more if it didn't read like someone from my generation trying to comedically and culturally appeal to a grumpy sixty-year-old with an aversion to the internet.
If you want to read a quirky piece about a computer geek, stick with Mr. Penumbra.
Disappointed in the cost for what I received
Okay, normally I do not post reviews on Amazon. Who has the time? But This thing was $8- It's now $6.42 which I would say is appropriate. Although actually $5 seems more on par if I'm being totally honest. This thing is as thick as the church service pamphlet. Disappointed in the cost for what I received. I would have bought the book or leaflet actually, but let's price as appropriate.
If you've lived in the Sillicon Valley tech scene long enough, you should enjoy this book.
A lot of the other reviewers for this book don't really "get it". This book is a parody of the seriousness with which a lot of aspiring tech entrepreneurs take the principles of the "thinkers" (mostly investors) in the tech industry, told through blind adherance to a bunch of unimportant tweets.