Instant National Bestseller A PBS NewsHour-New York Times Book Club Pick! Excellent. --San
Francisco Chronicle Brotopia is more than a business book. Silicon Valley holds extraordinary
power over our present lives as well as whatever utopia (or nightmare) might come next. --New
York Times Silicon 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 exposé 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.
