Penelope Trunk

Penelope Trunk (born Adrienne Roston; legal name Adrienne Greenheart; pen name "Adrienne Eisen" December 10, 1966)[1] is an American writer and entrepreneur.

Penelope Trunk
Born
Adrienne Roston[1]

(1966-12-10) December 10, 1966[2]
NationalityAmerican
Other namesAdrienne Greenheart[1]
Alma materBrandeis University
Occupation(s)Entrepreneur, writer, blogger
Websitepenelopetrunk.com

Trunk co-founded four venture-backed Internet startups, and TechCruch named Trunk, along with Susan Wojcicki, Sheryl Sandberg, and Marissa Mayer, on the list of 30 most influential women in the tech industry.[3]

Early life

Trunk grew up in Wilmette, Illinois,[4] until she was 14 and the police removed her from her parent's house.[5] Then she lived with her grandparents in Glencoe and attended New Trier High School. She graduated from Brandeis University,[6] before moving to Los Angeles to pursue a career as a professional beach volleyball player. On the Women’s Professional Beach Volleyball Tour she was ranked 17th in the US.[7]

Career

Hypertext

Trunk published Six Sex Scenes in 1996.[8][9] In 1998 Trunk won the New Media Invision Award for Digital Storytelling.[10] As part of the hypertext canon,[11] Six Sex Scenes influenced other writers in terms of structure[12] and content.[13]

Journalism

Trunk began writing business advice when Fortune magazine published an open call for a woman to write about her own life as an executive. Trunk won the job and became a columnist at Business 2.0 magazine. Subsequently she wrote for Bankrate.com, Yahoo! Finance.[14][15] and The Boston Globe.[16] Her blog posts were syndicated to more than 200 newspapers.[6]

Books

In 2001 Trunk published Making Scenes with Alt-X (a subsidiary of University of Colorado), which is a book based on pages previously published on her website.[17] Andrew Stern wrote that it was a publishing experiment of going from nonlinear format to linear instead of the other way around.[18] Making Scenes was republished by Emily Books in 2012.[19] Trunk's second book, Brazen Careerist: The New Rules for Success, was published by Warner Books.

Entrepreneurship

Trunk worked for ten years as a marketing executive in the software industry.[15] During this time, she founded the companies math.com and eCityDeals which were both acquired.[6] Trunk has written about her career in Time and The Guardian.[20][21]

She co-founded Brazen Careerist and it became a social network for generation Y to get jobs from their blogs.[22][23] The company would later focus on virtual career events instead, having failed to draw millennials from LinkedIn.[24]

Trunk tried reality TV[25] and making goat cheese[26] which failed. So she became a career coach.[27] While living on the farm Trunk co-founded Quistic, an online learning company. [28][29]

Personal life

Trunk married Nino in New York City and had two children. The family moved to Madison, Wisconsin in 2006, before relocating to a farm near Darlington, Wisconsin.[30]

Trunk filed for divorce.[31] The New York Times interviewed parenting experts who warned Trunk to stop blogging about her divorce.[32] Trunk did not stop.[33]

Trunk has two sons by her first husband. After she and her first husband divorced, Trunk married her second husband, a farmer.[34] Trunk's accounts of physical abuse in the relationship with her current husband have been discussed on the feminist website Jezebel.[35] In September 2009, Trunk was preparing to have an abortion, but while waiting out a state legal requirement, she suffered a miscarriage during a company board meeting. Her Tweets about the incident received widespread media attention.[36][37] It was around this time, Marin Cogan recalled in an article for The Cut, that Trunk's blog began to take on a darker tone, less appealing than the one that had made her the "Sheryl Sandberg long before Sandberg wrote Lean In". Cogan came to feel she and other early career women had been "mistaken in assuming that Trunk’s brazen careerism was a feminist project in any meaningful sense."[38]

Trunk describes herself as having Asperger syndrome after deciding many criteria for the disorder applied to her.[39]

Bibliography

Hypertexts

  • Six Sex Scenes (Alt-X, 1993)
  • What Fits: A Hypertext Novela (Eastgate Reading Room, 1994)
  • Considering a Baby (Iowa Review, 2001)

Books

  • "Making Scenes" (as Adrienne Eisen) (Broadvision, April 2001, ISBN 978-0970351708)[40][41]
  • Brazen Careerist: The New Rules for Success (Warner, May 2007, ISBN 0-446-57864-9)
  • The New American Dream: A Blueprint for a New Path to Success (Hyperink, July 2012, ISBN 1614649928)[42]
  • The Power of Mentors: The Guide to Finding and Learning from Your Ideal Mentor (Hyperink, October 2012)

References
  1. Trunk, Penelope (March 5, 2007). "My name is not really Penelope". Penelope Trunk Blog. Archived from the original on June 23, 2011. Retrieved October 3, 2011.)
  2. Trunk, Penelope. "My birthday post". Penelope Trunk. Archived from the original on 5 September 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  3. "30 Women Who Have Revolutionized A Male-Dominated Industry". Archived from the original on 2023-01-03. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  4. "1979.023.001-.014 - Manuscript | Wilmette Historical Museum". wilmettehistory.pastperfectonline.com. Archived from the original on 2023-01-02. Retrieved 2023-01-02.
  5. "How to decide how much to reveal about yourself". Penelope Trunk Careers. July 21, 2009. Archived from the original on January 25, 2023. Retrieved February 23, 2023.
  6. Prestegard, Steve (April 7, 2012). "The indescribable Penelope Trunk". Platteville Journal. Archived from the original on April 4, 2016. Retrieved April 13, 2013.
  7. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2023-01-02. Retrieved 2023-01-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. "El Relato Digital: Hacia Un Nuevo Arte Narrativo | PDF | Hipertexto | Comunicación humana". Scribd. Archived from the original on 2023-02-23. Retrieved 2023-02-23.
  9. "Patterns of Hypertext". cs.brown.edu. Archived from the original on 2023-01-03. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  10. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2023-01-03. Retrieved 2023-01-03.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  11. Ensslin, Astrid (July 9, 2007). Canonizing Hypertext: Explorations and Constructions. A&C Black. p. 20. ISBN 9780826495587. Archived from the original on February 26, 2023. Retrieved February 26, 2023 – via Google Books.
  12. Bernstein, Mark (February 23, 1998). "Patterns of hypertext". Proceedings of the ninth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia : Links, objects, time and space---structure in hypermedia systems links, objects, time and space---structure in hypermedia systems - HYPERTEXT '98. ACM Press. pp. 21–29. doi:10.1145/276627.276630. ISBN 0897919726. S2CID 317442.
  13. "Hypercompendia » Blog Archive » HYPERTEXT: Mapping Beauty". Archived from the original on 2023-02-23. Retrieved 2023-02-23.
  14. "Yahooooooo!". Penelope Trunk Careers. January 19, 2007. Archived from the original on January 3, 2023. Retrieved February 23, 2023.
  15. Rierson, Richard (March 27, 2013). "32 – Penelope Trunk: Brazen Careerist Founder". Dose of Leadership. Archived from the original on October 26, 2013. Retrieved April 13, 2013.
  16. "Climb Archives - Boston.com". archive.boston.com. Archived from the original on 2023-01-03. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  17. "Making Scenes by Adrienne Eisen". alt-x. Archived from the original on January 10, 2012.
  18. "Grand Text Auto » Mak ing Sce n e s". Archived from the original on 2023-01-03. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  19. "Adrienne Eisen – Emily Books". emilybooks.com. Archived from the original on 2023-01-03. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  20. "Penelope Trunk, Columnist, Business 2.0". Time. September 12, 2001. Archived from the original on September 13, 2001. Retrieved August 8, 2015.
  21. Trunk, Penelope (July 13, 2012). "From PR to profits: the problems with publishing". The Guardian. Archived from the original on March 9, 2016. Retrieved August 8, 2015.
  22. Parr, Ben (August 25, 2009). "Brazen Careerist: The Job Site for Gen Y?". Mashable. Archived from the original on January 3, 2023. Retrieved January 3, 2023.
  23. "Brazen Careerist Launch: Twitter meets Facebook meets LinkedIn meets G". Archived from the original on 2023-01-03. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  24. Halzack, Sarah (2013-06-09). "Brazen Careerist puts job fairs in the cloud". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Archived from the original on 2013-06-11. Retrieved 2023-02-23.
  25. "The demo reel for my reality TV show (and how to turn a failure into a success)". Penelope Trunk Careers. April 30, 2013. Archived from the original on January 3, 2023. Retrieved February 23, 2023.
  26. "Goat cheese is the new veal". Penelope Trunk Careers. January 25, 2011. Archived from the original on February 2, 2023. Retrieved February 23, 2023.
  27. "Penelope Trunk - Speaker". Texas Conference for Women. Archived from the original on 2023-01-03. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  28. Koetsier, John (October 29, 2013). "Penelope Trunk's new startup is crazy, creative, insane, and genius — just like her". Venture Beat. Archived from the original on August 20, 2014. Retrieved August 17, 2014.
  29. Ruth, Richard (February 12, 2015). "How Quistic Is Advancing Eepreneurship". Startup Hook. Archived from the original on 18 August 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  30. Baedeker, Rod (December 7, 2009). "Big city blues: Could a more affordable life, away from the Bay Area, actually be better?". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on January 12, 2013. Retrieved April 13, 2013.
  31. "My first day of marriage counseling". Penelope Trunk Careers. July 5, 2007. Archived from the original on January 3, 2023. Retrieved February 23, 2023.
  32. Kaufman, Leslie (April 18, 2008). "When the Ex Blogs, the Dirtiest Laundry Is Aired". New York Times. Archived from the original on 13 November 2013. Retrieved 12 April 2013.
  33. "The entrepreneur's guide to a good divorce settlement". Penelope Trunk Careers. July 25, 2008. Archived from the original on January 3, 2023. Retrieved February 23, 2023.
  34. Bures, Frank (Summer 2012). "The Fall of the Creative Class". Thirty Two Magazine. Archived from the original on June 21, 2012. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  35. North, Anna (December 29, 2011). "Who Is Penelope Trunk?". Jezebel. Archived from the original on 30 June 2013. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
  36. Dee J. Hall (October 1, 2009). "Advice columnist's tweet: Too much information?". Wisconsin State Journal. Archived from the original on September 26, 2011. Retrieved October 1, 2009.
  37. Trunk, Penelope (November 5, 2009). "Why I tweeted about my miscarriage". The Guardian. Archived from the original on October 30, 2013. Retrieved October 3, 2011.
  38. Cogan, Marin (2015-05-07). "Where Did Penelope Trunk Go Wrong?". The Cut. Archived from the original on 2023-02-23. Retrieved 2023-02-23.
  39. Trunk, Penelope (November 2013). "Could you boss have Asperger's?" (PDF). More. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 October 2022. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
  40. Warrell, Beth. "Making Scenes." Booklist, vol. 98, no. 13, 1 Mar. 2002, p. 1089.
  41. "Making Scenes. (Fiction)." Publishers Weekly, vol. 249, no. 7, 18 Feb. 2002, pp. 72+.
  42. Schwabel, Dan (July 23, 2012). "Penelope Trunk on "The New American Dream"". Forbes. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
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