"Because I had covered Silicon Valley since 2004, the year Google went public and when Facebook was started, I was able to meet and interview many young technology CEOs. For my novel, I decided to create the character King Rao, have him grow up on a coconut farm in South India in the 1950s, move to the states in the 1970s and ultimately open an Apple-like tech company.”"
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Non-fiction authors from the United StatesEditors from the United StatesWomen authors from the United StatesWomen journalists from the United StatesWomen born in the 1980s
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Vauhini Vara
3 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Vauhini Vara →
Related Quotes
"I started working right away as a reporter at the Wall Street Journal. They put me in the San Francisco bureau of the…"
"I had a kind of Trump-like character, who was very much based on Trump, who I wrote into the book as part of the expl…"
"You're entitled to your own opinion but you cannot be entitled to your own facts."
"Would you end war? Create great Peace."
"To be a god First I must be a god-maker: We are what we create."
"Hearts starve as well as bodies: Give us Bread, but give us Roses."
"Up in the heights of the evening skies I see my City of Cities float In sunset’s golden and crimson dyes: I look, and…"
"They can only set free men free... And there is no need of that: Free men set themselves free."
"Hadn't he been blowing kisses to Earth millions of years before I was born?"
"Quick as a hummingbird is my love, Dipping into the hearts of flowers—She darts so eagerly, swiftly, sweetly, Dipping…"