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Re:For Stanford Class of '94, a Gender Gap More Powerful Tha... by ulfw on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @01:41PM (#8789475)
The ones who 'sell' the best and who have the most connections and resources get ahead in today's Silicon Valley. It's as simple as that. Nothing 'meritocratic' about that.

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2014/12/the-meritocr...

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Re:For Stanford Class of '94, a Gender Gap More Powerful Tha... by escherize on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @02:37PM (#8789789)
Unless you define merit as selling.
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Re:For Stanford Class of '94, a Gender Gap More Powerful Tha... by snlacks on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @03:32PM (#8790045)
Which in improving technology, it is not.
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Re:For Stanford Class of '94, a Gender Gap More Powerful Tha... by michaelochurch on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @02:59PM (#8789894)
It's the 5th Paper Belt hub: the financial center of technology. Silicon Valley itself is dying, but Stanford is going to remain a top university, so it'll generate the MDs and VPs of this new increasingly IB-like industry, and tradition is strong, so San Francisco has at least 50 years (in my estimation) at the lead of the finance-of-technology business. It'll also house a lot of management consultants specializing in outsourcing, an industry that's not going to go away until labor arbitrages disappear (at least 30 years).

As for where technology itself will "go" next, I have no earthly idea. But you're right that in 2014, the Valley is a salesman's world. If you can raise funding, the balance of power between tech talent and fundraising has never been better for you.

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