Agree that university -> CS degree is the most common path to tech but I don't think this is a romanticization of Bay Area lore. I also grew up without PCs and

Agree that university -> CS degree is the most common path to tech but I don't think this is a romanticization of Bay Area lore. I also grew up without PCs and grew up poor but was self taught with computers because I had a ton of time on my hands in a shitty school district that wasn't challenging. Most of my peers spent their time drinking, sleeping around, and doing drugs in my bad neighborhood but I also know kids who learned instruments and became athletes with their time. If anything I find most new tech employees were henpecked students from elite families being browbeat to study something lucrative.