Silicon Valley combines immense wealth with hubris and a macho, victim-minded mentality among powerful men. The environment mixes privilege with a perception that equality equals oppression, producing a blend of machismo and self-pity. Individual leaders such as Mark Zuckerberg are characterized as thoughtful and endlessly curious about subjects they do not excel in. Tech billionaires including Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Tim Cook have sought proximity to Donald Trump. Homogeneity in dress, cars, media and fads fuels herd-like behaviour. Insularity and cultural conformity have blinded major tech firms like Meta to missteps.
Silicon Valley is full of hubris and hugely wealthy and macho men who think they are victims, the former politician and Facebook executive Nick Clegg has said. The former leader of the Liberal Democrats makes the claim in a new book chronicling his three careers as an MEP in Brussels, an MP and deputy prime minister in Westminster and as a communications and public policy strategist in San Francisco.
In Silicon Valley, far from thinking they're lucky, they think they're hard done by, [that] they're victims. I couldn't, and still can't, understand this deeply unattractive combination of machismo and self-pity. He said: It is a cultural thing, through from Elon Musk's chainsaw-wielding stuff to any Silicon Valley podcast. If you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression. Clegg described Mark Zuckerberg as endlessly curious about subjects he did not excel in.
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