Nick Clegg transitioned from British deputy prime minister to Meta executive and recently left his role earlier this year. He defends Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg while criticizing Bay Area tech culture for conformity and herd behavior. He describes Silicon Valley as a place of stampedes and fads and calls it the most conformist place he has lived. He highlights uniformity in dress, cars, podcasts and reading habits, and says people follow trends while believing themselves insightful. He connects tech's overcorrection toward Donald Trump and isolationist attitudes to this conformism. He published a book based partly on his Meta experience.
Speaking with Bloomberg about the tech industry's "overcorrection" toward Donald Trump and the president's isolationist attitudes, he called Silicon Valley "a place of stampedes and fads," and said that while the industry may pride itself on challenging norms, "it's the most conformist place I've ever lived in my life."
"Everyone dresses the same, they drive the same cars, they listen to the same podcasts, they claim to read the same books," Clegg said, getting in a thinly veiled dig. "You get this extraordinary herd behavior and everyone thinks they're being super insightful, but in fact everybody's kind of following the same trend."
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