VALLEY VERIFIED

Tech, but make it fashion.

Zoe Zeng is a progressive fashionista, frustrated that her job as junior fashion writer at Chic magazine requires her so often to regurgitate mainstream content, when she’d rather write about size inclusivity or women with alopecia. So when a slick young tech guy from Silicon Valley named Bill Lawrence offers her the role as VP of Marketing at his start-up, she moves across the country to try something new. The app is called FitPick, and it allows users to crowd-source opinions on two competing outfits in hopes of providing them a “safe space to explore their style.” Whether such a space could be maintained in the wilds of the internet is open to question, but Zoe digs the concept and proves to be a dab hand at marketing. Unfortunately, she misses many clues that Bill is a sleaze who cares nothing for FitPick’s stated philosophy. Zhao is intent on casting Zoe as a knowing champion of those on the margins, with the personal experience of being Chinese American and not straight-sized. So her naïveté around Bill and her quickness to judge female COO Lillian Mariko as a nemesis are surprising. When FitPick is written up positively on the infamous gossip website ValleyVerified, things are looking up for the team. But the success of the app and a burgeoning office romance are about to come crashing down on Zoe, upending many of her assumptions and giving her her biggest challenge yet.

A lively juxtaposition of two distinct and self-serious worlds.