This aspect touches upon it, although I don't believe the point he is making specifically is meant to level criticism at tech startups themselves: >A Harvard B

This aspect touches upon it, although I don't believe the point he is making specifically is meant to level criticism at tech startups themselves: >A Harvard Business Review study of common traits among CEOs found that the leaders who rose to that position fastest were those who had a “catapult experience”—a bold and potentially risky career move. Perhaps the same traits that lead to this type of bold action might also lead to very poor outcomes on a college campus. Perhaps hyper-permissiveness actually ends up promoting a form of timidity. We’re left with Silicon Valley dorks who microdose LSD in order to create hookup apps where users exchange sex puns on the toilet. That last dig pointing out the absurd mix of hyper-permissiveness (hookup culture) and timidity (texting) just highlights how contemporary innovation is the often twisted nexus of these two extremes, and it is the continuation of this pattern being described that makes up the neo-bureaucrat culture's cognitive dissonance.