This feels a lot like the Spy School series, only this one came first. NERDs are special children government operatives. Tech is used to turn their weaknesses into strengths. One bully jock finds himself ostracized from his friends because he has braces. He manages to sneak into the N.E.R.D.S space and has his braces turned into nanotech weapons. A separate thread follows the life of a child beauty queen turned goon for hire. They all meet as part of an evil plan to move the continents. They help save the world, with socially inept kids realizing they don't have to harm others, and the former bully jock realizing that nerdiness that sports aren't everything. He and his brother both now favor intellectual pursuits more. It is a fairly standard "being a reader is cool" ending to an elaborate spy story.
Imposter Syndrome seems really dialed into Silicon Valley, but "the 101"? The book centers on a company (Tangerine) that feels like Facebook with a dash of Google and Yahoo. The founder/CEO is mentioned, but has a very minor role in the story. The focus is instead on the COO, a Russian immigrant woman who is the perfect strong female executive. Oh, and it just so happens she is also a spy, part of an elaborate espionage scheme. She utilizes her special access to anybody's account to pass off information to the Russians. A low-level female Chinese engineer at the company discovers suspicious activity and eventually discovers who it was. She ends up getting connected with the feds and helps implicate the COO, but loses her job in the process. In the end, she gets a job at a startup, while the COO takes a "leave" only to come back (and offer the Chinese engineer her job back if she wants it.)