Sweetbitter meets Brotopia in a story of self-discovery and breaking barriers as a female journalist during the second wave of tech by award-winning investigative reporter and former CNN Senior Tech Correspondent Laurie Segall.
In 2008, 23-year-old Laurie Segall was living in a walk-up in the East Village while Wall Street was crashing down. A newly hired news assistant at CNN, Segall discovered a group of scrappy misfits who were rising from the ashes of the recession to change the world: the tech entrepreneurs.
A misfit herself, Segall gained entrance to New York's burgeoning tech scene, with its limitless cash flow and parties populated by geeks-turned-billionaires. Back at the news desk every morning, Segall steadily rose through the ranks at CNN while these entrepreneurs went from minnows to sharks, building companies that would become our democracy and our social fabric: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Uber, Tinder. Segall also became one of the first reporters to give many of these then-unknown founders airtime, creating CNN's startup beat and eventually becoming the network's on-air Senior Technology Correspondent.
Over the course of a decade, Segall witnesses the rise of second wave tech, from the boom, to the "complicated years," to the backlash, and her misfits emerge as some of the world's most influential leaders. They also reveal their very human failings, often compromising the companies they had given everything to create. Meanwhile, we follow the arc of Segall's personal journey, as she struggles to step into her own power in career, love, and life.
Dot Dot Dot is a story of tech's human side. It is a young woman's origin story, which also happens to be the origin story of the second wave of tech and the humans behind the companies that have come to shape our lives, and one women's quest to find her voice.
