That might have been an excuse in 1992. It's not an excuse in 2026. The geeks won. We are the cool guys (or were, until the fucking geek CEOs went insane).
Damn, my check must've gotten lost in the mail.
For a very brief period, and then when the really big money started rolling in, all the personalities that used to flock to wall street became programmers.
The Silicon Valley of the 90s was completely different to the thing it is now here.
On one level it's a shame on another exactly what you'd expect to happen given the amounts of money involved.
We had it good there for a while.
> > The geeks won.
> For a very brief period, and then when the really big money started rolling in, all the personalities that used to flock to wall street became programmers.
> The Silicon Valley of the 90s was completely different to the thing it is now here.