At Uber, she helped build the rideshare business in New York City and was part of the founding UberEATS team. In 2018, Vass was recruited by Waymo, Google's self-driving car division, to develop their delivery business, and then went on to found Civi in 2020, a tech startup focused on safety in Latin America. Born in New York City, Vass and her husband now live in Miami, Florida. When not writing or reading, she enjoys spending time with loved ones, traveling, cooking, and horseback riding.
Vass's new novel is The Rally.
At Lit Hub the author tagged nine novels featuring the poorest person among rich people behaving badly. One title on the list:
Rules of Civility, Amor TowlesRead about another book on the list.
A whip-smart Brooklyn girl from a working-class immigrant family, stationed in a Wall Street typing pool, meets a charming banker named Tinker Grey in a Greenwich Village jazz bar on the last night of 1937. The chance encounter tips her into the upper reaches of Manhattan society. What makes it more than a climbing story is that Tinker turns out to be a guest too—his old-money polish is being quietly financed by a wealthy patron. It’s all set against the most vivid Manhattan on this list: the city that has always been the great stage for the guest, where everyone is from somewhere else and busy becoming someone new.
Rules of Civility is among the Times of India's six remarkable books set on New Year's eve and day, Glamour magazine's list of the fifty-seven best books of the 2010s, and Michael Hogan's ten best New Year’s Eves in culture.
--Marshal Zeringue
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