Oh yes but that leaves tons of brilliant people who didn't goto any of the ivies ready to hire for those of us not wanting to compete with the SV app style star

Oh yes but that leaves tons of brilliant people who didn't goto any of the ivies ready to hire for those of us not wanting to compete with the SV app style startups. I used to be a bit annoyed by this attitude when I worked as a contractor at a Google data center. Well first it was still a boon to get Google anyway associated with my resume, but second I realized Google and SV and the rest were missing out on lots of brilliant engineers, makers, and programmers. Turns out hard technical problems care less about technical pedigree than humans. ;)