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Chapter 1

INDIA

TechCrunch Disrupt, San Francisco

The first time I met Jon, he tried to pick me up

He almost succeeded If he had, I doubt I’d be here at TechCrunch Disrupt today

Picture it – one of ht before a week of irlfriends We're crazy in the way that only geek girls can be crazy – letting our hair doe're usually buttoned up tight Tequila shots, pitchers of beer, nachos Music blaring, we're all half-drunk sitting on stools at the beach bar, and up walks this gorgeous hunk of a lish class

I watch as Marina's eyes widen when he stands next to me

"Hey, India right?" he says, his arlish course Great name, by the way"

"Thanks," I say, used to getting ribbed about nize you" I turn to hi Tess of the D' Urbervilles"

"Yeah," he says and gives me a brilliant smile "Or at least, we're supposed to be I'ht?"

I shake edy, and a warning about Britain's cru feudal system, the decay of the rural way of life due to industrialization and the oppression of women"

"Whoa" He makes a face of horror "Deep There was a movie made about it," he says "With Nastassja Kinsky Didn't Polansky direct it?"