By T. Lee, R. Wright and Amy Larner
How bad billionaires become worse
By examining the vast number of public discussions about Silicon Valley billionaires, one fact is blazingly clear: They are broadly hated and they live in a synthetic world of male insecurity, egotism and wiener-wagging. Misogyny, rape-culture, racism, sexism and IPOD’s: Are they all evil? While the conclusion may sound like a broad over-generalization, we thought it would be interesting to use a Palantir/CIA-type media harvesting tool to grab the web and see if it shakes out any clarity on why these guys are so awful. Take a look at these three sets of articles and see what you think:
PART ONE: In the first set of reports we see that most of the population finds that Silicon Valley has engaged in Rectal-Cranial insertion, to such a degree, that it is tone deaf to how it is perceived and so in it’s self-congratulatory TED-bubble that it can’t see the forest from the trees:
Silicon Valley Arrogance Bubble – Business Insider
Former AngelHack CEO Greg Gopman apologized last week for a series of posts on Facebook in which he said that homeless “trash” had no place in the “heart of our city …
businessinsider.com/silicon-valley-arrogance-bubble-2013-12?op=1
Why are so many people in Silicon Valley arrogant? – Quora
Why are there so many variations of the question “Who are the most influential X people in SiliconValley“?
quora.com/Why-are-so-many-people-in-Silicon-Valley-…
Enough is enough, Silicon Valley must end its elitism and …
When computers were just for nerds and large corporations, SiliconValley’s elite could get away with arrogance, insularity and sexism. They were …
washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2014/01/27/enough-is…
The Arrogance of Silicon Valley — ToTheTick™
Now, the country pie is being cut up and doled out yet again by the handful of arrogant masters of SiliconValley. Profiteers and privateers are the ruling class.
tothetick.com/the-arrogance-of-silicon-valley
Silicon Valley Tech Entrepreneurs: Behind the Stereotype …
David Brandon Geeting for Bloomberg Businessweek Behind this week’s cover. … Arrogant or not, SiliconValley continues to lead the economy.
bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-08-07/silicon-valley-tec…
The Arrogance of Silicon Valley | Zero Hedge
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Sickening Rape Allegations Against a Tech Mogul — NYMag
“In addition to shaking her violently during sexual assaults, he also began strangling her, slapping her, scratching her, yanking her by the hair so hard that he …
nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/02/palantir-cofo…
Palantir co-founder accused of sexually assaulting then …
JoeLonsdale ’04, co-founder of Palantir and founding partner of venture capital fund Formation 8, has been accused of gender violence, sexual assault, sexual …
stanforddaily.com/2015/01/28/palantir-co-founder-joe-lonsda…
The Stanford Undergraduate and the Mentor – NYTimes.com
JoeLonsdale and Ellie … and she says she was raped every time she and Lonsdale … the university reached a new decision regarding Lonsdale. Stanford …
nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/the-stanford-undergra…
Silicon Valley Has an Arrogance Problem – WSJ
SiliconValley Has an Arrogance Problem It’s Too Proud, Too Self-Centered, and That’s Not Good For Anyone
wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023036614045791757…
How arrogant are people in Silicon Valley? – Quora
Is SiliconValleyarrogant? Yes or No? How so? And how does this impact the tech industry more generally. ★
quora.com/How-arrogant-are-people-in-Silicon-Valley…
Why ‘arrogant jerks’ become rich and successful in Silicon …
Why ‘arrogant jerks’ become rich and successful in Silicon … Inside SiliconValley, arrogance runs rampant and investors seem to reward ruthless …
venturebeat.com/2014/11/22/why-arrogant-jerks-become-rich…
Eric Schmidt’s Sex penthouse & Sex Yacht
Schmidt reportedly brings ladies back to this $15 million pad. To be fair, nobody knows for sure exactly what goes on in Eric Schmidt’s $15 million penthouse at 31 W …
nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/07/eric-schimdt-…
Google Boss Enjoys $15 Mil Manhattan Sex Penthouse
Google’s chairman Eric Schmidt has a new girlfriend, … Google Boss Enjoys $15 Mil Manhattan SexPenthouse. 186,237. 3. Sam Biddle Profile Follow Unfollow. Sam Biddle.
valleywag.gawker.com/google-boss-enjoys-15-mil-manhattan-sex-p…
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt Buys Sex Penthouse
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt Buys SexPenthouse. … News outlets have dubbed it the ‘SexPenthouse’. Schmidt had a net worth of 8.2 billion dollars …
eteknix.com/google-executive-chairman-eric-schmidt-bu…
Prostitute Murdered Google Exec on Yacht in California …
Prostitute MurderedGoogle Exec on Yacht in California: Police. By NBC Bay Area. … a Googleexecutive, while they were aboard the 50-foot yacht.
nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/prostitute-murdered-goo…
Escort charged in Google executive’s heroin death
Police have charged Alix Catherine Tichelman with manslaughter in the heroin overdose death of a Googleexecutive on his yacht. VPC Alix Tichleman (Photo …
usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/07/09/escort-arres…
The Many Women of Eric Schmidt’s Instagram – Valleywag
Google Boss Enjoys $15 Mil Manhattan SexPenthouse Google Boss Enjoys $15 Mil Manhattan SexPenthouse … The Many Women of Eric Schmidt’s Instagram. 4. Sam Biddle …
valleywag.gawker.com/the-many-women-of-eric-schmidts-instagram…
Google CEO and serial womanizer Eric Schmidt spends 15 …
Google CEO and serial womanizer Eric Schmidt spends $15 million on private, no doorman Manhattan penthouse and then has it totally soundproofed
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2377785/Google-CEO-serial-wo…
Google Gangbang: Sergey Brin is the Wolf of Silicon Valley …
Looking for high powered, gratuitous sex? Forget Wolf of Wall Street, the guys over at Google apparently put the ‘g’ in gangbang, especially when it comes …
youtube.com/watch?v=uOtB_CR3YEA
TomoNews | Google Gangbang: Sergey Brin is the Wolf of …
Looking for high powered, gratuitous sex? Forget Wolf of Wall Street, the guys over at Google apparently put the ‘g’ in gangbang, especially when it comes to SergeyBrin.
tomonews.net/google-gangbang-sergey-brin-is-the-wolf-o…
Google Gangbang: Sergey Brin is the Wolf of Silicon Valley …
Looking for high powered, gratuitous sex? Forget Wolf of Wall Street, the guys over at Google apparently put the g in gangbang, especially when it comes to SergeyBrin.
anasta.net/video/animation/google-gangbang-sergey-br…
Silicon Valley Has An Arrogance Problem – The Huffington Post
SiliconValley Has An Arrogance Problem. … it s being driven by well-paid software engineers and Web designers who are flocking to SiliconValley.
huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/04/silicon-valley_n_4214640.html
Why ‘Arrogant Jerks’ Become Rich And Successful In Silicon Valley
There’s a notion that some people become successful company founders because they have the right “Startup DNA.” The DNA is comprised of characteristics like …
businessinsider.com/asshole-ceos-startup-founders-and-success…
Why ‘Arrogant Jerks’ Become Rich And Successful In Silicon …
Why ‘Arrogant Jerks’ Become Rich And Successful In … Inside SiliconValley, arrogance runs rampant and investors seem to reward ruthless behavior with …
finance.yahoo.com/news/why-arrogant-jerks-become-rich-14000…
Is Silicon Valley Arrogant? Not by My Definition – Bloomberg …
Nov. 8 (Bloomberg) — The tech world is all atwitter over accusations of arrogance. In an essay in the Wall Street Journal headlined “SiliconValley Has an …
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-11-08/is-silicon-valle…
Silicon Valley Needs to Lose the Arrogance or Risk …
In advancing their case that SiliconValley’s profits only benefit the few, critics often note the structural advantage of tech companies, which allows them to …
wired.com/2014/02/silicon-valley-backlash/
Defending the Brash Arrogance of Silicon Valley
The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone’s backyard. I read this quote in a New York Times obituary in 2000, and it’s stuck …
numeratechoir.com/defending-the-brash-arrogance-of-silicon-…
The Grassy Road: Is Silicon Valley arrogant? – Penny Herscher
Michael Arrington at Techcrunch wrote a somewhat defensive piece on SiliconValley vs. Seattle yesterday An outsider’s flawed view of siliconvalley.
pennyherscher.blogspot.com/2008/02/is-silicon-valley-arrogant.html
Silicon Valley dreams of secession – Salon.com
SiliconValley’s “hit list,” he argued, … You will not find a better distillation of Valley arrogance than in Srinivasan’s speech. New York?
salon.com/2013/10/28/silicon_valley_dreams_of_seces…
Not too long ago there was some discussion about low-income housing going into Midtown , and some posters had conflicting views on the matter. I came
okctalk.com/current-events-open-topic/35914-silicon-v…
Uber’s boys club is what’s wrong with Silicon Valley
Uber is one of the most hated companies in the technology industry, writes Vivek Wadhwa. But its disrepute is largely because of its arrogance and frat-boy behavior …
pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/ubers-boys-club-wha…
In Defense of Silicon Valley Arrogance | RealClearPolitics
Sam Altman sits behind his desk with his knees pulled up to his chest, eating dried apricots. He’s 29, but even the most laissez-faire bartender would card him. His …
realclearpolitics.com/2014/08/07/in_defense_of_silicon_valley_a…
23andMe, GoldieBlox, and Silicon Valley Arrogance | News …
The recent controversies over 23AndMe and GoldieBlox show the danger of a SiliconValley culture where “disruption” is the highest goal.
pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2427631,00.asp
Silicon Valley’s Arrogance Is Out of Beta and Ready to Ship …
Venture capitalist Tim Draper’s proposal for a SiliconValley state (and 5 others) is the apotheosis of tech hubris
time.com/2993601/6-californias/
Is Arrogance Required to Succeed in Silicon Valley? – YouTube
Aug. 7 (Bloomberg) — Reputation.com Founder and CEO Michael Fertik discusses SiliconValley arrogance and attitudes on “In The Loop.” (Source …
youtube.com/watch?v=77gvQ6j_CoY
Silicon Valley Is Living Inside A Bubble Of Tone-Deaf Arrogance
Y Combinator. A slide from Srinivasan’s talk. One tech entrepreneur suggested SiliconValley secede from the U.S. In a speech titled “SiliconValley’s …
finance.yahoo.com/news/silicon-valley-living-inside-bubble-…
VC Perkins: Ignore Protesters Against Silicon Valley’s Rich …
Legendary venture capitalist Tom Perkins opens up about his recent inflammatory comments about hostility toward the rich in SiliconValley.
blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/02/14/vc-perkins-ignore-prote…
Silicon Valley (TV series) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
SiliconValley is an American television sitcom created by Mike Judge, John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky. The series focuses on six young men who found a startup …
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley_(TV_series)
Arrogance Is Good: In Defense of Silicon Valley | Careers …
The magazine archive includes every article published in Communications of the ACM for over the past 50 years.
cacm.acm.org/careers/177523-arrogance-is-good-in-defen…
PhD dropout? Lucrative Silicon Valley career – Sep. 9, 2014
Lucrative SiliconValley career. By Pooja Bhatia, … Quite the opposite: The tech turk — characteristically, someone too brilliant, too arrogant, …
money.cnn.com/2014/09/09/news/economy/ozy-dropout-caree…
Silicon Valley Is Now Public Enemy No. 1, And We Only Have …
For a region noted for its problem-solving orientation and progressive ethos, SiliconValley has managed to anger a pretty wide swath of American society.
techcrunch.com/2014/01/28/blowback-silicon-valley-is-now…
John C. Dvorak: On HBO’s Silicon Valley (review, full episode here)
All of the usual suspects — up to and including the most-arrogantSiliconValley blowhards and posers — are portrayed in this series.
anewdomain.net/2014/04/10/john-c-dvorak-hbos-silicon-val…
Silicon Valley’s Race Problem | ZDNet
Arrington’s awkward commentary on race is a symptom, not a problem, of SiliconValley’sarrogant assumption that it is above the fray.
zdnet.com/article/silicon-valleys-race-problem/
A new, more arrogant Silicon Valley
The New SiliconValley may be brash, it may be arrogant, but in the case of the smart home, it looked to continue its winning streak.
fool.com/investing/general/2014/06/26/welcome-to-t…
PART TWO: Then we see that the world has now experienced people from Silicon Valley and found them to be exactly “like one big Frat House”..:
Silicon Valley is now ruled by Assholes…
Posts about siliconvalleyfrathouse written by EDITORS
somosnark.wordpress.com/tag/silicon-valley-frat-house/
Silicon Valley Bank – Frat house | Glassdoor
SiliconValley Bank. www.svb.com …
glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Silicon-Valley-Ba…
Silicon Valley Is a Big Ole Fraternity – The Wire
What do SiliconValley startups have in common with fraternities? A lot, it turns out, based on recent reports about the rise of the “brogrammer”— a would-be tech …
thewire.com/technology/2012/04/silicon-valley-big-ole…
Brogramming: The disturbing rise of frat culture in Silicon …
A new generation of programmers is fostering a culture that’s more Animal House … Brogramming: The disturbing rise of frat … frat-boy-ification of SiliconValley:
theweek.com/articles/476014/brogramming-disturbing-ri…
The Real Teens of Silicon Valley – The California Sunday Magazine
The Real Teens of SiliconValley Inside the almost-adult lives of the industry’s newest recruits … “We don’t consider this a frathouse or a co-working space.
stories.californiasunday.com/2015-06-07/real-teenagers-silicon-valley?…
silicon valley is a frat house | Richmond Refinery Cancer
Posts about siliconvalley is a frathouse written by richmondrefinerycancer510
richmondrefinerycancer.wordpress.com/tag/silicon-valley-is-a-frat-house/
Silicon Valley’s sexist brogrammer culture is locking women …
SiliconValley has become a frathouse where drinking and womanising are suitable pastimes for young tech luminaires, but the industry is suffering from this lack of …
theneweconomy.com/technology/silicons-sexist-brogrammer-cul…
Silicon Valley Is a Big Ole Fraternity – Yahoo News
RELATED: Bikini Babes at Google Demo Remind Us Why SiliconValley Is for Dudes. Though frat bros have been in the American conscience since at least Animal …
news.yahoo.com/silicon-valley-big-ole-fraternity-1723580…
Cast keeps it funny on ‘Silicon Valley’ set – USA TODAY
LOS ANGELES — Stepping onto the set of HBO comedy SiliconValley is like walking into a frathouse, only this one is inhabited by tech geeks and the …
usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2015/04/08/silicon-valley-h…
Tech bubble: Déjà vu for Silicon Valley companies? | Myinforms
SAN FRANCISCO — It is a wild time in SiliconValley. Two-year-old companies are valued in the billions, ramshackle homes are worth millions and hubris has reached …
myinforms.com/en-us/a/13350225-tech-bubble-dj-vu-for-si…
Changing Silicon Valley’s Frat Boy Culture | Vivek Wadhwa
When I started writing about the gender disparity I saw in SiliconValley, … because such frat-boy behavior was … SiliconValley’sFrat Boy Culture.
huffingtonpost.com/vivek-wadhwa/silicon-valley-frat-culture_…
“Gangbang Interviews” and “Bikini Shots”: Silicon Valley’s …
… SiliconValley’s Brogrammer Problem. For startups like Path, recasting geek identity with a frathouse swagger is a dangerous game. —By Tasneem Raja
motherjones.com/media/2012/04/silicon-valley-brogrammer-c…
GRUNGE INC. / LIVE-IN STARTUPS COMBINE FRAT-HOUSE … – SFGate
… Home-About SFGate-Careers … GRUNGE-INC-LIVE-IN-STARTUPS-COMBINE-FRAT–HOUSE … as young engineers chase the SiliconValley …
sfgate.com/news/article/GRUNGE-INC-LIVE-IN-STARTUPS-…
“Fuck Bitches Get Leid,” the Sleazy Frat Emails of Snapchat’s CEO
“Fuck Bitches Get Leid,” the Sleazy Frat Emails of Snapchat’s CEO. 21. Sam Biddle … SiliconValley worships youthfulness, … The house was also a tiny tech …
valleywag.gawker.com/fuck-bitches-get-leid-the-sleazy-frat-ema…
Is Silicon Valley ageist? – Fortune
MORE: SiliconValley discovers secession, … It’s true that many buzzy San Francisco and SiliconValley companies have a frat–house/dorm-room vibe about them.
fortune.com/2014/04/04/is-silicon-valley-ageist/
In ‘Silicon Valley,’ Boston’s tech community sees real life …
When young workers in Boston’s technology community watch “SiliconValley,” HBO’s new sitcom about life in a internet startup, it all seems so …
bostonglobe.com/business/2014/05/11/silicon-valley-boston…
Frat brothers sell company; leave Tech Valley for Silicon …
Five Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute students are heading to SiliconValley after selling the business they built in their fraternity house. The students …
bizjournals.com/albany/stories/2006/05/08/story1.html?pag…
Watch: “Silicon Valley” Season 2 Trailer | Complex
SiliconValley, the HBO series that taught us that “tech incubator” is basically Californian for “nerd frathouse” and gave us the most elaborate dick joke ever told …
complex.com/pop-culture/2015/02/silicon-valley-season…
In war for talent, ‘brogrammers’ will be losers – CNN.com
Story highlights. SiliconValley has a problem with brogrammer culture of frathouse fun; Gina Trapani: Tech start-ups that want to hire the best people …
cnn.com/2012/05/10/opinion/trapani-brogrammer-cul…
Uber’s boys club is what’s wrong with Silicon Valley
Uber is one of the most hated companies in the technology industry, writes Vivek Wadhwa. But its disrepute is largely because of its arrogance and frat-boy behavior …
pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/ubers-boys-club-wha…
-Misogyny Valley! In Silicon Valley: No women that aren’t sex …
Misogyny Valley! In SiliconValley: No women that aren’t sex objects, no blacks, no execs that aren’t from rich-family frathouses! The arrogant empire of …
somosnark.wordpress.com/2014/07/03/misogyny-valley-in-silicon-val…
Brogramming: The disturbing rise of frat culture in Silicon …
A new generation of programmers is fostering a culture that’s more Animal House than Revenge of the Nerds — and that’s not necessarily a good thing Meet …
news.yahoo.com/brogramming-disturbing-rise-frat-culture-…
Pebble Watch: Behind the Smartwatch for iPhone and Android …
A SiliconValleyfrathouse might be the best way to describe it. … “We actually launched our first smart watch a year and a half ago, …
abcnews.go.com/Technology/pebble-watch-smartwatch-iphone…
Katherine Losse, the Woman in the Facebook Frat House – WSJ
Memoirs of Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg and others from the raucous days of a company in transition from dorm room to SiliconValley titan.
wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023048987045774784…
Mike Judge’s “Silicon Valley” Disrupts HBO – Tech
Essentially a geeky frathouse, … “SiliconValley” is a very human story of determination and friendship situated in the often surreal tech mecca where …
tech.co/mike-judges-silicon-valley-disrupts-hbo-2…
A sorority for Silicon Valley’s ‘frat row’ – SFGate
Annie Rogaski, one of the few female partners at the elite law firm Kilpatrick Townsend in SiliconValley, often represents tech companies headed exclusively by men.
sfgate.com/style/article/A-sorority-for-Silicon-Vall…
Silicon Valley – The Huffington Post
“SiliconValley” mercilessly satirizes the excesses of a world it knows well, … the doofy ringleader of one very dorky frathouse.
huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/02/silicon-valley-hbo_n_5079118.html
PDF Brogramming: The disturbing rise of frat culture in Silicon …
… The disturbing rise of frat culture in SiliconValley … It’s “a term that seeks to recast the geek identity with a competitive frathouse flavor,” says Raja.
staff.hartdistrict.org/mhinze/docs/aow/AOW_Week_28.pdf
Kixeye: the Gaming Startup That Proves Silicon Valley’s …
Kixeye, the gaming startup that proves SiliconValley’sfrat-house culture isn’t going away anytime soon.
slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/08/br…
The case for firing Snapchat’s CEO, & why the Silicon Valley frat…
In case you need to catch up on those, they were pretty standard frat bro emails sent to the house email listserve — degrading sorority girls, talking up the house’s brothers, and graphically describing a lot of acts that were likely inspired by ego and porn.
venturebeat.com/2014/05/31/the-case-for-firing-snapchats-…
As The Silicon Valley Gender Gap Remains Striking, What’s It Like…
One former resident of Rainbow Mansion, an intentional community, found that men were surprised to even see a woman: When she opened the door for a visitor during one of her house “hackathons,” she told Marie Claire, “He couldn’t take it and just ran away… Most of the guys in SiliconValley are…
bustle.com/articles/16090-as-the-silicon-valley-gend…
Silicon Valley (TV Series 2014- ) – IMDb
Comedy. In the high-tech gold rush of modern SiliconValley, the people most qualified to succeed are the least capable of handling success. A comedy partially inspired by Mike Judge’s own … See full summary ».
The Silicon Valley Frat Club – CNN Video
The SiliconValleyFrat Club. Source: CNN. Added on 1517 GMT (2217 HKT) July 2, 2014.
edition.cnn.com/videos/business/2014/07/02/qmb-vivek-wadh…
Review: Silicon Valley: “Proof Of Concept” · TV Club · The A.V. Club
David Gordon Green initiates Virginia Gardner into frat-house drama Goat. However, it also works as a great character moment for Jared, who continues to have one of SiliconValley’s most interesting arcs.
avclub.com/tvclub/silicon-valley-proof-concept-204743
Wall Street Journal: Part 2, Changing Silicon Valley’s Frat Boy Culture
A handful of prominent investors called my writings garbage; one called me a loser and a fraud. They could get away with this because such frat-boy behavior was considered acceptable in SiliconValley.
wadhwa.com/2014/08/04/wall-street-journal-part-2-cha…
Silicon Valley News, Photos and Videos – ABC News
Reporter: Hbo’s ” Siliconvalley ” is set in a world that feels more like a frathouse ….. trial played out like a real-life soap opera set in siliconvalley . The details of her marriage to Wall Street executive …
abcnews.go.com/topics/business/technology/silicon-valley…
Bloomberg BusinessWeek Rips Bravo’s Silicon Valley Reality Show…
“When I’m on my deathbed, I won’t be accepting of my demise. I’ll be angry because I’ll know there are 44 minutes owed to me from 2012, minutes lost to this sham of a show.”.
businessinsider.com/businessweek-rips-bravos-silicon-valley-r…
“The Rise of the ‘Brogrammer'”
“The Rise of the Brogrammer: Can SiliconValley Solve Its Sexism Problem?”
businessweek.com/articles/2012-03-01/the-rise-of-the-brogr…
What is a Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist, actually? – FACT…
They are frat boy pricks from rich families who only give money to other frat boy pricks in exchange for market monopolies. DG- SiliconValley. 27 Apr 2012 … Well, creating bros only takes a certain environment that both SiliconValley and college fraternity houses share.
virtu-tv.com/what-is-a-silicon-valley-venture-capitali…
The case for firing Snapchat’s CEO, & why the Silicon Valley frat…
In case you need to catch up on those, they were pretty standard frat bro emails sent to the house email listserve – degrading sorority girls, talking up the house’s brothers, and graphically describing a lot of acts that were likely inspired by ego and porn.
dailytechwhip.com/case-firing-snapchats-ceo-silicon-valley-…
SILICON VALLEY 1% | How It Hurts To Be A Rich Frat House…
They used the SiliconValley investors internet companies, (mostly Google), to manipulate voter perceptions and web searches in favor of their agenda. In SiliconValley: No women that aren’t sex objects, no blacks, no execs that aren’t from rich-family frathouses!
siliconvalley1percent.wordpress.com
HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley’ Is a Cynical Show with a Gooey Center
The landlord deems his glorified frathouse an “incubator” and lets the young programmers live there in exchange for a 10 percent stake in anything they create. “SiliconValley”‘s stammering protagonist, Richard, is indeed sympathetic. He writes brilliant code but can’t figure out the best practical use for it.
newrepublic.com/article/117266/hbos-silicon-valley-mike-j…
What If Silicon Valley Moved to Puerto Rico? – Market Guardian
The combination of the R&D, business, and personal tax benefits make Puerto Rico a far better option than SiliconValley. A few recent stories have covered tech companies providing housing for workers not only to reduce the high cost of living but also to encourage a family (more likely, frathouse)…
themarketguardian.com/2014/11/silicon-valley-moved-puerto-rico/
In ‘Silicon Valley,’ Boston’s tech community sees real life and comedy…
An antic takeoff about the pressures and promises of creating the Next Great Company, “SiliconValley” centers on a crop of shaggy, slovenly, self-absorbed entrepreneurs living and working in a communal “incubator” space that resembles a frathouse for nerds.
bostonglobe.com/business/2014/05/11/silicon-valley-boston…
‘Silicon Valley’s Skewering of the Tech Industry Feels…
Richard (Thomas Middleditch), “Big Head” (Josh Brener), Dinesh (Kumail Nanjani) and Gilfoyle (Martin Starr) live together with Erlich (T.J. Miller) in his hacker house: a nerd’s frathouseSiliconValley offers the full package for a breakout sitcom: a strong script, a cast that makes the writing even funnier…
splitsider.com/2014/04/silicon-valleys-skewering-of-the-…
Changing Silicon Valley’s Frat Boy Culture Women 2.0
They could get away with this because such frat-boy behavior was considered acceptable in SiliconValley. But things are changing for the better. There is outrage at the sexism that is coming to light in SiliconValley; solutions are being discussed and implemented…
Ellen Pao trial loss sends shock waves through Silicon Valley
For weeks the closely-watched courtroom drama had pored over Pao’s stories of the firm’s all-male outings and frathouse behavior in lurid detail But beyond the money changing hands, experts said the decision could have set a precedent for the way gender discrimination is handled in SiliconValley.
mashable.com/2015/03/27/ellen-pao-trial-reaction/
Silicon Valley trials start as sexism lawsuit ends
Two decades ago, a female stockbroker at Smith Barney exposed investment banking’s frathouse culture in a lawsuit that put “boom-boom room” into the American lexicon. They suggest, however, that SiliconValley, much like the financial community, can expect years of scrutiny to come.
blogs.reuters.com/breakingviews/2015/03/29/silicon-valley-t…
Ramit: Part Frat Boy, Part Silicon Valley Geek | Ben Casnocha
Money graf: Sethi’s style is part frat boy and part SiliconValley geek, with a little bit of San Francisco hipster thrown in. At times, he can be downright juvenile, as when he titled a blog anthology “Ramit’s 2007 Guide to Kicking Ass.”
casnocha.com/2007/11/ramit-part-frat.html
Silicon Valley Boys Club Shown as Jokes Spark Firings – Bloomberg…
(Corrects Richards’s job title in second paragraph of story that ran March 23.). March 23 (Bloomberg) — Just as the technology industry’s glass ceiling is being shattered by high-profile executives like Facebook Inc.’s Sheryl Sandberg and Yahoo!
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-03-22/silicon-valley-f…
Deepening estrangement between SiliconValley and govt…
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Silicon Valley Tea Houses | WANKEN – The Art & Design blog…
SiliconValley Tea Houses. January 19th, 2012. Each house has a unique purpose. The first 270 square foot space is the meditation tea house used for individual contemplation. The next space at 372 square feet is the sleeping tea house used for overnight stays.
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Ben Horowitz on Sexism in Silicon Valley – PandaWhale
This is key to building a healthy company, according to Horowitz. Horowitz does come down against many people that believe sexism is alive and thriving in the Valley. I’m not sure he realizes that most sexism in SiliconValley is subtle…
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SiliconValley: Wealth Redistribution, 1 Percent-Style. Online Real Estate Firm Ranked Female Employees by Breast Size, Created ‘FratHouse’ Culture at Work. Arturo Garcia, Raw Story, Dec 3, 2014.
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Vivek Wadhwa: Part 2, Changing Silicon Valley’s Frat Boy Culture
A handful of prominent investors called my writings garbage; one called me a loser and a fraud. They could get away with this because such frat-boy behavior was considered acceptable in SiliconValley.
blogs.wsj.com/accelerators/2014/08/04/vivek-wadhwa-chan…
PART THREE: Then we see that modern studies have proven that “Ivy League” educations ruin potential adults by brain-washing them into becoming arrogant pricks. We find that almost every single Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist and technology CEO came from one of these fraternities. These are the very Fraternities that are in the current headlines for date-rape, abuse and cheating scandals. Read this small set of reports and see what you think:
How “Ivy League” destroys young adults…
Education Why IvyLeagueSchoolsAre So Bad at Economic Diversity. Elite universities should not be asking, “Why do we have so few low-income students?” but …
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Is applying to only ivy league schools a bad thing? | Yahoo …
If i apply to all the ivyleagueschools would the admissions officers … Do admission officers consider applying to only all leagueschools a bad thing …
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Ivy League Schools Are Overrated. Send Your Kids Elsewhere …
Don’t Send Your Kid to the IvyLeague The nation’s top colleges are turning our kids into zombies . By William Deresiewicz. I n the spring of 2008, …
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The Ivy League, Mental Illness, and the Meaning of Life
The IvyLeague, Mental Illness, and … especially at elite colleges, … and feel bad. So those are the values that the system is transmitting: …
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Are the Ivy League Schools ‘The Best’ Universities?
You might wonder if I started this site to bury the IvyLeagueschools and not to praise them. Ok, bad use … The IvyLeagueschools can only be … of an Ivy than …
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Are “Ivy League” schools really that bad? – Decisions …
Page 1 of 2 – Are “IvyLeague” schools really that bad? – posted in Decisions, … I did my undergrad degree at an IvyLeagueschool, and I absolutely loved it!
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What does it really take to get into the Ivy League? Part I …
Find out what it really takes to get into the IvyLeague with … do colleges specifically IvyLeagues feel … schools such as Johns Hopkins, how bad is …
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The Ivy League Schools Ranked – Business Insider
Business Insider ranked the eight IvyLeagueschools from worst to best. … The highest ranked Ivy outside of the top three, …
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Is an Ivy League Education Bad For Your Brain? Part One …
The issue of class diversity at elite schools is an important one. Deresiewicz provides no statistics to back up his claim that the IvyLeagueschoolsare …
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Is it possible to get into an ivy league with really bad …
Best Answer: No you cant. GPA is a huge factor in determining acceptance to an ivyleagueschool. Fortunately for you, it’s only your freshman year. If you …
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Are Élite Colleges Bad for the Soul? – The New Yorker
Poison IvyAre élite colleges bad for the … His complaints turn most violently against the IvyLeague and its spiritual … Schools of art and drama were now …
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Why do Ivy League schools have a comparatively bad reputation …
Why do IvyLeagueschools have a comparatively bad reputation in … but relatively recently many IvyLeagueschools have begun to make a serious push at …
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Why is it a bad idea to apply to all Ivy League schools …
Why is it a bad idea to apply to all IvyLeagueschools? … that is considered to be a bad idea to apply to all of the IvyLeague universities? Why?
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Ivy League – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Seven of the IvyLeagueschools were founded before the American Revolution; Cornell was founded just after the American Civil War.
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Why are Ivy League schools so prestigious if they have bad …
AreIvyLeagueschools more popular for studying sciences than engineering?
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Why is it a bad idea to apply to all Ivy League schools …
Good luck, Astrotech, you’re a good sport! … I’m applying to all of the IvyLeagueschools; it’s not necessarily because of “name” or “prestige.”
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Superhuman High School Transcripts Are Key To Ivy League …
Superhuman High School Transcripts Are Key To IvyLeague Admission. Is That Such A Bad … and high school students that an IvyLeague degree is …
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7 secrets of the Ivy League – Yahoo Finance
The Cambridge, Mass., college was one of only two IvyLeagueschools to increase its admissions rate, … but a bad idea for kids in the middle.
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Is The Ivy League Worth It? | Bad Money Advice
Is The IvyLeague Worth It? Continuing the seasonal back-to-school theme, two blogs recently addressed essentially the same question, namely are elite colleges worth …
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SO, What do you think? These are the people that tell the President what to do and decide what ideas get into the market, or not.