The Third Act: How an Outsider Reverse-Engineered Silicon Valley

Sonja V. Lutz arrived in New York with a German degree, no network, and a husband with an interesting opportunity. Twenty years later, she is a CMO, a co-founder, a Growth Architect, and the woman who has been in the rooms most women are still trying to get into. The Third Act is the career memoir Silicon Valley never wrote about itself, told by the woman who lived it.

She spent more than a decade, after her early career at Philip Morris and MontBlanc, navigating one of the most powerful and...