{"product_id":"dont-be-evil-bad-bosses-fake-promises-and-my-escape-from-big-tech","title":"Don't Be Evil: Bad Bosses, Fake Promises, and My Escape from Big Tech","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDon't Be Evil \u003c\/i\u003etakes us through Claire Stapleton's disillusionment with a company that claimed to champion progressive and utopian values, but ultimately put profit and power above all else. This book is an absolute must-read for anyone interested not just in big tech, but in what it takes to not lose your soul in modern-day America. I loved it.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNaomi Fry, staff writer at The New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"There's a reason Claire was a beloved icon at Google, before the worm turned and rot of the business model spread too visibly. She writes with frankness, clarity, and deep attentiveness to what's actually in play, backed by a cool woman's unwillingness to navigate bullshit quietly. How fucking refreshing. I devoured \u003ci\u003eDon't Be Evil\u003c\/i\u003e--the read is so exact I had to stop and gasp. A gorgeous historical document, delivered with a warm, relatable voice and impeccable humor. This book is the diary of a real one, at a critical moment, and I can't recommend it highly enough!\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMeredith Whittaker, president of the Signal Foundation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDon't Be Evil \u003c\/i\u003eis enraging, galvanizing, and illuminating. Claire Stapleton tells her own story, and the story of Big Tech's rapacious pursuit of power, with stunning bravery, wit and clarity. Every manager, employee, HR exec, journalist, C-suite bro, and starry-eyed young graduate entering the workforce should read this book.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLaurie Woolever, author of Care and Feeding: A Memoir and Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDon't Be Evil \u003c\/i\u003eis a corporate memoir told with a singular voice, written by someone who literally was Google's corporate voice. Claire takes us along for her journey from the company's internal monologue to a righteous labor organizer. Candid and hilarious, she writes against the glossy AI-pilled grain of girlbosses and Silicon Valley go-getters alike.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDr. Alex Hanna, co-author of The AI Con\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Beautifully written and searingly honest . . . \u003ci\u003eDon't Be Evil\u003c\/i\u003e offers a psychological map of our bewitchment by tech. The obtuseness, greed, cruelty, and dishonesty at the heart of the corporation is documented with forensic precision.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCatherine Liu, author of Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Sharp. . . The author's blend of righteousness and gallows humor will resonate with readers who are disenchanted with big tech or their own high-pressure work environments. This stings.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A witty, razor-sharp exposé [of Google] from the ultimate insider--a true believer who lived it, loved it, and finally saw through it.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An absolute must-read for anyone interested not just in big tech, but in what it takes to not lose your soul in modern-day America.\" --Naomi Fry, staff writer at \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA whip-smart, darkly funny, and timely memoir of one woman's twelve years inside Google and her transformation from insider to dissenter as the company's ideals begin to unravel from within.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Claire Stapleton joined Google in 2007, it felt like stepping into a worldview as much as a job. The company offered not just a career, but a moral project. In the heady early years of Big Tech and when Google's in-house slogan was \"Don't be evil,\" it was easy to believe that technology wasn't just changing the world--it was going to fix it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStapleton quickly became known as the \"Bard of Google,\" pulled into the rooms where the company narrated itself--writing speeches, blog posts, and executive communications for leaders including Larry Page. As she rose through increasingly rarefied roles, from the storied Creative Lab to YouTube marketing, she helped shape the myth from the inside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut as the gap between Google's ideals and its reality widened, the dissonance became impossible to ignore. In 2018, amid outrage over the company's handling of sexual harassment, Stapleton helped organize the 20,000-employee Google Walkout--a defining rupture in Silicon Valley's self-image that \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003ecalled a \"watershed moment in tech.\" Overnight, she became a public face of employee revolt--and no longer someone the company could neatly fold back into its story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSharp, witty, and unsparing, \u003ci\u003eDon't Be Evil \u003c\/i\u003eis an insider's account of how power actually works--and a deeper reckoning with the stories we tell about work, purpose, and ourselves. In a culture that collapses identity into work, and as tech elites blur the line between private authority and public life, it asks: how much can you change from within--and when is it time to walk away?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e 06\/01\/2026 (EAN 9780063465145, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eStapleton, Claire\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eClaire Stapleton\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer, communications consultant, and tech labor activist. 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