As the sibling comment noted, I think you might be projecting value judgment onto value distinction. The most salient values of the later cohort are different

As the sibling comment noted, I think you might be projecting value judgment onto value distinction. The most salient values of the later cohort are different than those in the prior ones, and those values do track with the values we associate with those different class backgrounds. But there's no ranking being made there. They're just different values. The values of the new cohort have earned the industry a great deal of political, economic, and cultural influence on an international level. The values of the old cohort didn't do that, except insofar as they built a stage for the new one. They made software differently. They designed products differently. They operated businesses on different scales. They hired differently. Indeed some of us from the old cohort don't personally savor all the spotlight and influence and cultural drama that Silicon Valley collectively bears now, and miss the way thing were. And others love it. But that's just personal preference, not class warfare.