Iterating Grace, Koons Crooks
Iterating Grace, Koons Crooks
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Iterating Grace
Heartfelt Wisdom and Disruptive Truths from Silicon Valley's Top Venture Capitalists

Author: Koons Crooks, Anonymous

Narrator: John Hodgman

Unabridged: 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/22/2015


Synopsis

What is this tiny audiobook? Who is this Koons Crooks?

With its privately-printed, anonymously-produced 140-copy first printing, Iterating Grace became the talk of summer 2015 in the tech world. From Buzzfeed to Tumblr to Fusion, people were puzzled and enthralled by the story of Koons Crooks, a young man who took the Twittered musings of the Silicon Valley elite to heart-and ended up on a profoundly unexpected path, leaving behind only the lovingly hand-calligraphed tweets that had meant so much to him. His story struck an immediate chord.

There were competing efforts to identify the author of Iterating Grace; blog posts and lengthy comment threads pointed finger at writers all over the country, from Robin Sloan to Susan Orlean to Dave Eggers. Other early theories supposed it was the tip of an elaborate marketing scheme, and soon all would be revealed. But gradually it became clear that it was simply this: a small piece of literary art, perfectly pitched and driven by a Twain-like bemused outrage, by a creator who did not want to be identified, and would not explain anything beyond what the satirical fable said for itself.

Disruptive innovators whose tweets are illustrated in Iterating Grace include: Austen Allred, cofounder of Grasswire; Sam Altman, president of Y Combinator; Marc Andreessen, coauthor of Mosaic, cofounder of Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz; Jeff Bussgang, VC at Flybrige Capital; Tony Conrad, cofounder and CEO of about.me; Benedict Evans, VC at Andreessen Horowitz; Brad Feld, VC at Foundry Group-and many more.


Reviews

Goodreads review by karen

not my world, man... come to my blog!......more

Goodreads review by Andrew

A humorous art project? A short story that garnered outsized attention in a certain segment of the press? A laugh out loud satire of all of the above? Who knows. I will say the shit about the llamas is fucking funny.......more

Goodreads review by Drew

Utterly surreal and delightful satirical – not to mention a beautiful object (although what does one expect from those fine folks at FSG Originals). Who was Koons Crooks? We will never know, even as we read his story. Tweets and ephemera cannot paint us the entire picture of any person – the real is......more

Goodreads review by Joshua

Well that was easy Apparently you can get a blog post the cites a few tweets published so long as you do it as if it were the 18th century. Bravo who ever you are. My $4.99 salutes you.......more


Quotes

"The book itself is a tongue-in-cheek takedown of the blind worship of the tech elite, littered with insider references." - Wired