Valley Verified | On paper\, Zoe Zeng has made it in New York&rsquo\;s fashion world. After a string of unp aid internships\, she&rsquo\;s now a fashion columnist at \;Chic\, liv es in a quaint apartment in Manhattan\, and gets invited to exclusive indu stry events. But life in New York City isn&rsquo\;t as chic as Zoe imagine d. Her editor wants her to censor her opinions to please the big brands\; she shares her &ldquo\;quaint&rdquo\; (read: small) apartment with three r oommates who never let her store kimchi in the fridge\; and how is she sup posed to afford the designer clothes expected for those parties on her mea ger salary?
\nThen one day\, Zoe receives a job offer at FitPick\, a n app startup based in Silicon Valley. The tech salary and office perks ar e sweet\, but moving across the country and switching to a totally new ind ustry? Not so much. However\, with her current career at a dead end\, Zoe accepts the offer and swaps high fashion for high tech\, haute couture for HTML. But she soon realizes that in an industry claiming to change the wo rld for the better\, not everyone&rsquo\;s intentions are pure. With an ei ght-figure investment on the line\, Zoe must find a way to revamp FitPick& rsquo\;s image despite Silicon Valley&rsquo\;s elitism and her icy colleag ues. Or the company&rsquo\;s future will go up in smoke&mdash\;and hers wi th it.
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Kyla Zhao had her first women&rsquo\;s magazine bylin
e at the age of sixteen\, writing about weddings for \;Harper&rsqu
o\;s Bazaar Singapore \;before she even had her first kiss. Since
then\, she has also written for the Singapore editions of \;Vogue
\;and \;Tatler. A native Singaporean\, Kyla now wor
ks in Silicon Valley after graduating from Stanford University in 2021.&nb
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