Not in Our Stars but in Ourselves

Gather around the campfire, friends, while I tell the latest fearsome tale of the wilds of Silicon Valley. It’s the story of two youngish, bright-eyed women — Julia Cordray, a “bubbly, no-holds-barred ‘trendy lady,’” as the Washington Post called her, and Nicole McCullough, a beaming mother of two — with ambition seeping through their pores.

They may look innocent, these two — cheerfully filming themselves as they weave through painful-looking “tech entrepreneur” cocktail events, earnestly self-promoting on various websites, gamely handing out business cards to shady characters who loiter on the streets of San Jose — but lo, they leave a trail of destruction in their wake.