Tomasz Tunguz moved to California because of a book, and he got into tech because of raspberries.
Tunguz grew up in a Polish military family—his last name, he says with mirth, "comes from the region in Siberia where [his] ancestors were exiled by Nicholas II." But while living in D.C. in his early 20s, Tunguz was entranced by Jack Kerouac’s On the Road and stories of Carmel, Big Sur, and San Francisco.
