Clearly the Bay Area startup scene is where you go when you're a pure product of privilege yet you still want to fancy yourself as self-made and anti-establishment
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Let's clarify this... On one hand, the supermajority of SF/SV founders were born rich, went to an Ivy (nearly a requirement to get funded), are part of the network. On the other hand, SF/SV rhetoric is all about rag-to-riches stories, lionizing founders as self-made heroes
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On one hand, the tech scene discourse is purely group-think, the supermajority of founders unconditionally embrace mainstream culture & ideology, and self-identify with stereotypes On the other hand, SF/SV rhetoric is all about thought leadership, daring to be think differently
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On one hand, the supermajority of founders are representatives of existing power structures and embrace the system and the goodies it provides them On the other hand, SF/SV rhetoric is all about disruption, being rebels, changing the world It's a jarring contrast.
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Agree, but you can probably replace "founders" by "Tech people"
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Is this really true empirically for the large companies? Larry/Sergey weren’t rich I think. Jack wasn’t born rich and no Ivy League. Zuck might meet this ( dad was a dentist). Travis K meets neither.
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Yeah, this is literally like the 4 biggest startups out of the bay. What about the 100 others that have raised between $5-15M and are Stanford/Berkeley grads who embrace 'cold water' baths after listening to a podcast? I think that's the point he's trying to make.
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I'm not sure "rags-to-riches" is the right mythology. Feels like the "riches" part is more important to this crowd than the "rags" part.
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