Paul Bradley Carr

Carr's first autobiographical book, Bringing Nothing to the Party—True Confessions of a New Media Whore, was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 2008. It tells the story of "a unique group of hard-partying, high-achieving young entrepreneurs—and [Carr's] attempts to join them, whatever the cost." spending each night in a different hotel. He wrote about his experiences for the Huffington Post and later in a book titled ''We'll Always Have The Flamingo''. In March 2012 The New York Daily News reported that Byliner was publishing a new memoir by Carr, titled Sober Is My New Drunk. In an extract from the book published in The Wall Street Journal and titled "How I Stopped Drowning in Drink," Carr explained his realization that he was an alcoholic and his successful self-designed program to stop drinking.{{cite web ==Fiction==

In 2021, Carr published his first novel, 1414°, a satirical thriller set in Silicon Valley. The novel received a starred review from Publishers Weekly that Carr's next novel, The Confessions, had been sold to Atria in a "six-figure deal." The novel subsequently received a starred review from Library Journal.{{cite web ==Satirical writing==

In 2001, while studying law at university, Carr co-founded and edited the award-winning satirical "comment sheet," The Friday Thing.{{cite news In 2002, The Christian Scientist described Carr as a "latter day Jonathan Swift" following the publication of his satirical anti-vigilante manifesto "Think of the Children."{{cite news He has also written for television, most recently for Alison Jackson's Doubletake series.{{cite web ==New Media writing==

In July 2009 it was announced Carr was a regular user of Twitter, but deleted his account in August 2010 to focus on blogging. Carr resumed using Twitter in April 2011 before quitting again in May 2015. Between 2014 and 2019 Carr served as editorial director of PandoDaily where he wrote a daily column. In 2020, Business Insider reported that Carr was launching Techworker.com, an independent news site for and about those who work in the technology industry. ==Entrepreneurship==

In 2005, along with Clare Christian, Carr co-founded The Friday Project, a book publishing house specializing in finding material on the web and then turning it into traditional books. Carr left The Friday Project in December 2006, along with online editor Karl Webster, to lead a buy-out of the company's Internet media arm, which led to the founding of online city site Fridaycities.com. He later described himself as "NSFW" (Not Safe For Work). following the departure of founder Michael Arrington, it was reported that Carr planned to return to entrepreneurship. One month later, Carr announced the launch of Not Safe For Work Corporation, an online satirical news weekly. The company was reportedly backed by investments from Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh and Arrington's CrunchFund. Not Safe For Work Corporation, or "NSFWCORP", failed financially and was sold to technology news Web site PandoDaily which was founded by Sarah Lacy and also funded by Hsieh alongside Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel. In 2017, Re/Code reported that Carr and Sarah Lacy were co-founding a new company, Chairman Mom. In 2018, Business Insider reported that the company had raised $1.4m in venture capital. == Bibliography ==