At the height of the startup boom journalist Corey Pein set out for Silicon Valley with little more than a smartphone and his wits. His goal: to learn how such an overhyped industry could possibly sustain itself as long as it has. Determined to cut through the clichés of big tech--the relentless optimism the incessant repetition of vacuous buzzwords--Pein decided that he would need to take an approach as unorthodox as the companies he would soon be covering. To truly understand the delirious reality of a Silicon Valley entrepreneur he knew he would have to inhabit that perspective--he would have to become an entrepreneur. Thus he begins his journey--skulking through gimmicky tech conferences pitching his over-the-top business ideas to investors and interviewing a cast of outrageous characters: cyborgs and con artists Teamsters and transhumanists jittery hackers and naive upstart programmers whose entire lives are managed by their employers--who work endlessly and obediently never thinking to question their place in the system.In showing us this frantic world Pein challenges the positive self-image that the tech tycoons have crafted--as benevolent creators of wealth and opportunity--to reveal their self-justifying views and their insidious visions for the future. Vivid and incisive Live Work Work Work Die is a troubling portrait of a self-obsessed industry bent on imposing its disturbing visions on the rest of us.