No Exit Quotes

“San Francisco was full of people walking around with their pockets stuffed with 1.2 percent of nothing.”
― Gideon Lewis-Kraus, No Exit: Struggling to Survive a Modern Gold Rush

“an MIT AI PhD can generally walk alone into an investor meeting wearing a coconut-shell bra, perform a series of improvised birdcalls, and walk out with $1 million.”
― Gideon Lewis-Kraus, No Exit: Struggling to Survive a Modern Gold Rush

“The Valley might not actually make much in the way of tangible goods, but like industrial centers before it, it’s the place where the astounding success of the very few has been held out to the youth in exchange for their time, their energy and, well, their youth.”
― Gideon Lewis-Kraus, No Exit: Struggling to Survive a Modern Gold Rush

“Starting a company has become the way for ambitious young people to do something that seems simultaneously careerist and heroic.”
― Gideon Lewis-Kraus, No Exit: Struggling to Survive a Modern Gold Rush