Tien, Alan

Alan Tien grew up in a predominantly white town as an Asian American, with Chinese as his first language. He managed to overcome this "handicap" with his Tiger mom's urging ("The beatings will continue until morale improves"). Against all odds, he got into Stanford where he majored in the perfect degree for writing novels, Electrical Engineering. He had found his tribe of nerds and geeks in the sunny Bay Area (aka Silicon Valley), where he gathered material for his forthcoming best seller by doing firsthand research posing as a programmer and eventually a manager in the corporate and internet