The entire premise of this video is a fiction. At what point were Silicon Valley startup founders non-conformists? They have historically been started by rich

The entire premise of this video is a fiction. At what point were Silicon Valley startup founders non-conformists? They have historically been started by rich white dudes, who went to Stanford etc. In the 60s and 70s there’s lots of talk about drug use at berkeley etc, but that wasn’t where startups were. In fact then being a startup was even more likely to require you to be from an already affluent family, definitely white (because banks could and did deny loans to people who weren’t white, red zoning meant PoC couldn’t buy property in many areas of the bay - hell it was so bad that Digital had to create its own credit union because it employed women and PoC who could not then get mortgages, etc) In the 90s people realized that they could use marketing to create an image of what a tech rockstar should look like, and then was “affluent white guy”, and that’s where the funding went. The ability to be anything beyond white guy in a suit is recent, and being “counter culture” has always been a negative. Hell Steve Jobs is the closest you get to “counter culture”, and all his marketing images have in a suit through out early Apple. It was until much later that any other image was acceptable, and that image was rich “grad student”.