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Careless People

A story of where I used to work

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Careless People

By: Sarah Wynn-Williams
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Meta wants to silence her voice. You can hear her words.

'Devastating . . . funny . . . highly enjoyable . . . A Bridget Jones’s Diary-style tale of a young woman thrown into a series of improbable situations' The Times

'Jaw-dropping . . . A tell-all tome' Financial Times

Sarah Wynn-Williams, a young diplomat from New Zealand, pitched for her dream job. She saw Facebook’s potential and knew it could change the world for the better. But, when she got there and rose to its top ranks, things turned out a little different.

From wild schemes cooked up on private jets to risking prison abroad, Careless People exposes both the personal and political fallout when boundless power and a rotten culture take hold. In a gripping and often absurd narrative, Wynn-Williams rubs shoulders with Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg and world leaders, revealing what really goes on among the global elite – and the consequences this has for all of us.

Candid and entertaining, this is an intimate memoir set amid powerful forces. As all our lives are upended by technology and those who control it, Careless People will change how you see the world.

'Darkly funny and genuinely shocking: an ugly, detailed portrait of one of the most powerful
companies in the world' The New York Times

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Everything I thought confirmed and then some. Obviously the author was to an extent complicit, however this spells out loud and clear the issues we should all be aware of. And then draw your own conclusions about where we’re going…

A must listen

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It’s a must read book and hopefully people take action and be more cautious with Facebook

A shocker

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For anyone interested in society and how technology shapes it, this read is obligatory.
Thorough, wry and darkly funny this is a story that needed telling.

It just what I thought, but worse

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Great listen. I found many of the stories and first hand accounts of events so shocking but also not surprising. We all had an idea the extent of the greed and selfishness of these people, but this is awful. Deleted my Facebook account as a result. I’d highly recommend this book.

Shocking and entertaining

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A shocking story about an evil company that has way too much influence. A big warning for big tech.

Leave Facebook

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Really interesting and well told. Gets a little preachy and too much detail in the second half

Great first half slightly long second

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a first hand account of what we either knew or assumed about the power and carelessness of the people who wield that power.

everyone should read this.

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This is an important book and a very good listen.

Sarah Wynn-Williams personal story connects lots of things you know of or had heard were happening with Facebook and how it operates but haven’t been laid out so clearly in one place before. It takes someone on the inside to really lay it out in this way and see the evolution, the motivation and the ‘values’ that are really driving things.

Reminded me a lot of Tyler Hamilton’s personal telling of doping in cycling which connected lots of things you already knew and were in the public domain but hadn’t been shared so clearly by an insider.

You will also hear a lot of the talking points of the second Trump administration in this book - not surprising given the Silicon Valley connections.

The Secret Race in Silicon Valley

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Excellent account of life at the top of a US tech org. Gripping from the first chapter and all the way through. Superb.

Gripping listen, vitally important

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Insight provided by a senior staff member has been very enlightening for me a common man made me feel so gullible in this present day high tech world, line between truth & false; right & wrong has gone thinner for me.

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