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Reviewed by Christine Nguyen for Readers' Favorite
Unemployable: How I Hired Myself by Alysia Silberg is an insightful memoir about achieving your dreams. Alysia grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa during the Apartheid Era when there were no equal rights. Violence permeated her whole world and she never felt safe, even at home. Her father was a makeup and special effects artist in Hollywood and was on a first-name basis with the biggest names in the 60s. Her happiest memories were at age six, helping her father at his drugstore-costume-rental-shop. Alysia showed signs of her entrepreneurial spirit early on when she became a young businesswoman, selling products at a profit to her rich classmates, and age nine when she tried to get a loan to buy property. She always dreamed of moving to America and succeeding in business, but she did not know how she would achieve her dream.
Alysia Silberg shares her powerful story in a fast-paced, engaging look into her rough childhood in Johannesburg with fascinating anecdotes concerning her life. Her writing is succinct, which makes it easy for readers to appreciate all her successes in Silicon Valley. I did not know much about startup companies and venture capitalism, but she explained it in an informative and simple way that was easy to understand for a beginner like me. I was fascinated by her many innovative ideas that led her to become a venture capitalist. Unemployable is a fascinating and shrewd memoir that delves into one woman’s incredible journey to succeed in the competitive high-stakes world of technology.
