Disclosure: I worked at Red Hat from 1998 until 2004 I never experienced a "Silicon Valley" culture at Red Hat, not pre-IPO as a scrappy startup, or post-IPO a

Disclosure: I worked at Red Hat from 1998 until 2004 I never experienced a "Silicon Valley" culture at Red Hat, not pre-IPO as a scrappy startup, or post-IPO as a growing company. Red Hat these days is an enterprise software company, and I think it retains a unique culture that I'm (mostly) proud to have been a part of cultivating in the early days even as a division of IBM today.