![]() When the time came to start promoting “Startup,” Shafrir said she wasn’t shy to reach out to her network of friends in media. You can listen to the new podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Stitcher and SoundCloud. But the dream of working at a print publication felt very dated to me.” “I don’t think that many 22-year-olds graduating college these days - maybe they go want to work at Vogue. “So many of these coming-of-age-in-New-York stories have been set in the magazine or publishing world,” she said. Shafrir said she specifically wanted to tell a story about today’s New York - not Silicon Valley and not the New York of the past. Instead, “Startup” traces what happens when a 24-year-old tech reporter uncovers a scandal involving the 28-year-old CEO of a mindfulness app. “Like, he wasn’t a character in the book.” ![]() “I think he was actually slightly disappointed when I said no,” she added. ![]() ![]() I see it more broadly, as a satire of the whole startup world, although my boss, Ben Smith, was like ‘Ooh! Is it a roman à clef?’” “It’s not a satire about the place I work,” Shafrir said on the latest episode of Recode Media with Peter Kafka. When BuzzFeed News writer Doree Shafrir embarked on her first book, she took the age-old advice, “write what you know.” But even though “Startup: A Novel” is about the New York tech and media scene, she says it’s not about BuzzFeed at all. ![]()
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