Doree Shafrir is a Senior Tech Writer at BuzzFeed News. Startup is her first novel. Doree has also been on staff at Rolling Stone, the New York Observer, Gawker, and Philadelphia Weekly and has contributed to the New York Times, the New Yorker, Slate, The Awl, New York magazine, Marie Claire, and Wired. She grew up outside Boston, lived in New York for nine years, and now resides in Los Angeles with her husband, Matt Mira, a comedy writer and podcaster.