Contemporary Fiction
Date Published: 9/26/24
The Underdogs was inspired by my time building a tech startup during the golden era of San Francisco, when Uber and Lyft were just getting started and battling it out. It’s a coming-of-age, immigrant story following a set of characters who are all trying to create a better future for themselves, for society, and escape their pasts.
Readers have shared that this story reminds them of The Prestige. Two geniuses, who came from nothing, competing against each other in a market that preys upon those who also come from nothing. Others have reflected on the story as a cautionary tale that stands the test of time — How “the few, the chosen” may end up taking advantage of the very same people who they grew up with.
”An optimistic
blue sky with scattered clouds above the Golden Gate and Marin County. Groups
of friends assembling on rooftops, uncorking bottles of wine from Napa or
Sonoma. Deals being made in coffee shops, angel investors trying their best to
convince an entrepreneur to let them into their funding round. Disruption,
convertible notes, paper millionaires, Rwandan coffee poured with surgical
precision. This was where the world’s problems were being solved. Where
fortunes were made, seemingly overnight, and the best and brightest flocked to.
This was Silicon Valley.”
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