Description What is this tiny book? Who is this Koons Crooks?With its privately-printed, anonymously-produced 140-copy first printing, Iterating Grace became the talk of summer 2015 in the tech world.
About the Author We can only speculate at the anonymous origin of this little treasure.. me
Benedict Evans, VC at Andreessen Horowitz
Brad Feld, VC at Foundry Group-and many more.
Disruptive innovators whose tweets are illustrated in Iterating Grace include: Austen Allred, cofounder of Grasswire
Sam Altman, president of Y Combinator
Jeff Bussgang, VC at Flybrige Capital
Tony Conrad, cofounder and CEO of about.
But gradually it became clear that it was simply this: a small piece of literary art, perfectly pitched and driven by a Twain-like bemused outrage, by a creator who did not want to be identified, and would not explain anything beyond what the satirical fable said for itself.
Other early theories supposed it was the tip of an elaborate marketing scheme, and soon all would be revealed.
There were competing efforts to identify the author of Iterating Grace; blog posts and lengthy comment threads pointed finger at writers all over the country, from Robin Sloan to Susan Orlean to Dave Eggers.
His story struck an immediate chord.
from Buzzfeed to Tumblr to Fusion, people were puzzled and enthralled by the story of Koons Crooks, a young man who took the Twittered musings of the Silicon Valley elite to heart-and ended up on a profoundly unexpected path, leaving behind only the lovingly hand-calligraphed tweets that had meant so much to him.
Description What is this tiny book? Who is this Koons Crooks?With its privately-printed, anonymously-produced 140-copy first printing, Iterating Grace became the talk of summer 2015 in the tech world
