now here is anna wiener. >> we are honored and excited to be here today. she's an author but regular customer in our bookstore as well. recovered culture and her work has appeared in time magazine among other publications. at the new york times,

>> 6:45, reporter anna wiener looks at san francisco startups in her book uncanny valley. >> i've heard people say that uber couldn't exist without this crazy culture. my question is should it exist, and that culture shouldn't exist if you don't have that culture in the past, that's fine. >> watch booktv presidents day on c-span2. >> i think we are ready to get started. i'm so excited. thank you for coming today. welcome to francie and finch. i am leslie and we have pat at the counter with the two booksellers that will be helping you today, but we have a lot of helpers. i want to find out if you haven't noticed, we have c-span in the room and tony came in from iowa, taking a little break from the iowa campaigning. so, you are going to be on c-span. i will find out when, i'm not sure that you can spread the word and let people know. marianne andre is here taking photos for jane. among them some of the milky way i don't know if you saw that it was absolutely beautiful. there are some other photographers. so we ar are kinder than a litte fishbowl today. this is great. i also want to recogn

. >> 6:45, reporter anna wiener looks at san francisco startups in her book uncanny valley. >> i've heard people say that uber couldn't exist without this crazy culture. my question is should it exist, and that culture shouldn't exist if you don't have that culture in the past, that's fine. >> watch booktv presidents day on c-span2. >> i think we are ready to get started. i'm so excited. thank you for coming today. welcome to francie and finch. i am leslie and we have pat at the counter with the two booksellers that will be helping you today, but we have a lot of helpers. i want to find out if you haven't noticed, we have c-span in the room and tony came in from iowa, taking a little break from the iowa campaigning. so, you are going to be on c-span. i will find out when, i'm not sure that you can spread t

now here is anna wiener. >> we are honored and excited to be here today. she's an author but regular customer in our bookstore as well. recovered culture and her work has appeared in time magazine among other publications. at the new york times, extinguished reporter. she often appears. the book signing will be in the back. and we would appreciate it if you keep the lines wall-to-wall. enjoy being with us. [applause]. [inaudible]. >> is more than 20 people here. [background sounds]. >> cspan behavior. [laughter]. i'm not going to curse tonight. i will try not to. i am thinking and i think you are thinking that we should probably started off, with part of the book and will be nice to having read apart. >> thank you. thank you by succumbing. especially for those people were standing. my frequent customer, the person who used to run to hear. and then stop. thank you guys for coming. this is very nice. i think i will read something, a section near to my heart. it's about a venture catalyst on twitter. [laughter]. he was regionally relevant. and then even into