"While there are many downsides to the mainstream exposure of Silicon Valley — the myriad fakers and sycophants that come along in any sort of high visibility s

"While there are many downsides to the mainstream exposure of Silicon Valley — the myriad fakers and sycophants that come along in any sort of high visibility situation — I’m willing to trade in occasionally having to deal with an annoying person if our values (entrepreneurship, self-reliance, fearlessness, disregard for a hierarchy, technical excellence) get a wider audience and more importantly, excite a fresh crop of high school seniors applying to college to go into CS because it 'sounds cool.'" To the extent that I worry about this show, I have the opposite concern. Jersey Shore did not exactly make me want to move to Jersey and take up the lifestyle. At the moment, to the extent that the country thinks about us at all, I think they think of us as brave folk trying to build the future. If this show convinces them we're a bunch of partying douches, that'll be sad. I'm not too worried about it, but that's the potential bad outcome. In 2002, I thought of I-bankers as smart, hard working people who were well compensated because what they did was difficult. Now I think of finance as mostly parasitic. Impressions can change.