Yes. Though many out in the boonies consider SV to be some hip progressive mecca, it’s more like a cyber-monarchy, maybe with King Jobs as appointed ruler (CA of course has a few aristocratic city-states around Bay Area and El Lay: and in some senses the entertainment mafia in Malibu or westside LA worse than SV). Very close knit and essentially conservative, regardless if a few software geeks might take a bong before making their commute to Redwood Shores in their Ferrari Testarossa.

The typical IT exec–say a Larry Ellison–is not exactly Oppenheimer: they are mostly hustlers and opportunists, and probably don’t know TCP-IP from their stock options. Even the old programming “gurus,” like that James Java dude, sold out: that cutting-edge code now powers e-bay (another SV institution). The flagship school of SV, Stanford, itself reeks of a nearly old-world sort of privilege and heritage. RICO ‘em. I wager even Chairdame Nancy might agree (‘scuzi a rant).