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One of the things that outsiders tend not to immediately grok about Silicon Valley, because it's so friendly, open, and accessible, is that personal loyalty is unquestionably the one value that rules all the rest by a mile. It's as strong as in mafia or Trump inner circles.
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Above a minimum competence bar for technical and financial savvy, the social graph solves for loyalty above all. In particular, though the average level of integrity is the same as genpop, the pressure to sacrifice it for personal loyalty is vastly higher.
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Is this loyalty-first thing a convection layer? I imagined that the top echelons are making money-first decisions...maybe the bottom echelons too.
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