In her new book, “Special Characters: My Adventures with Tech’s Titans and Misfits,” Laurie Segall writes about the high-tech sex secrets of the Silicon Valley tech world.
The gas masks, for instance, came with Apple earbuds, designed by one of her “tech clients.” A large iron cage was “constructed in perfect proportion to the jail cells in Alcatraz by an MIT engineer,” Rose added.
She ended up landing exclusive interviews with many of the biggest innovators in tech before they became household names, everyone from Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey to Kevin Systrom and Travis Kalanick . In late 2013, the author traveled to San Francisco for a story about sex workers who considered themselves Silicon Valley’s “other entrepreneurs” — a group from “the world’s oldest profession taking advantage of the new money pouring into the world’s newest profession,” she writes.
Kitty Stryker, a former sex worker, recalled in the book how she would have more clients when a new start-up was flush.Another madam told Segall that she made sure her stable of prostitutes wore “Game One madam advised her escorts to wear “Game of Thrones underwear” and lingerie adorned with phrases like “Winter is Coming” to appeal to tech dudes.
People in tech “have higher appetites for risk,” Sydney explained to justify her behavior. “Opening up your relationship is really risky in a similar way that starting a company is really risky.”