Immigrant parents Quote by Doree Shafrir

“So Mack got kind of a late start in the startup world—he founded TakeOff at the ripe old age of twenty-five”

— Doree Shafrir

“In its place had arisen a Promised Land of Duane Reades and Chase ATMs on every corner, luxury doorman buildings, Pilates studios and spin…

— Doree Shafrir

“He was out of a job because his company, StrollUp—“like Uber for strollers,” she’d heard him say approximately five thousand times—had gone out of…

— Doree Shafrir

“They were all in agreement that adulthood could, and should, be fun.”

— Doree Shafrir

“The need for approval from Twitter users was something that her younger self probably would have sneered at, but now she saw it as…

— Doree Shafrir

“She gestured with her head toward Andrew. “You know how they are. I’m basically invisible right now.” Katya wasn’t totally sure who they meant—startup…

— Doree Shafrir

“Nighttime Twitter was different from daytime Twitter only in that the content shifted from people in her timeline making dumb jokes about tech news…

— Doree Shafrir

“Couldn’t thirty-nine-year-olds just be old and tired and not talk about it constantly? Having”

— Doree Shafrir

“She also felt like there was something slightly more insidious going on, about how you were now supposed to feel like your work was…

— Doree Shafrir

“She usually operated under the assumption that quantity tended to beget not only quality, but also traffic. The more you wrote, the more you…

— Doree Shafrir

“Every so often she’d see a reporter complaining on Twitter about how far the quality of journalism had tumbled, thanks to the internet, and…

— Doree Shafrir

“Mack considered his ears his secret weapon in that they made him just slightly unattractive, a characteristic that he found made him irresistibly disarming…

— Doree Shafrir