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There's an excellent Quora thread on this with 34 answers: http://www.quora.com/Silicon-Valley/Why-are-so-many-people-in-Silicon-Valley-arrogant http://www.quor

There's an excellent Quora thread on this with 34 answers: http://www.quora.com/Silicon-Valley/Why-are-so-many-people-in-Silicon-Valley-arrogant http://www.quora.com/Silicon-Valley/Why-are-so-many-people-i... People cite everything from arrogance as a defense mechanism against failure, to the necessity of entrepreneurial delusion, to youth, to denying that people in SV are arrogant at all.

nextstep 13y ago
And I think we're starting to see all those same arguments made here in this comment thread.
- smtddr 13y ago
  I haven't even read the article, but I did just read this[1] and I agree very strongly that SV; particularly developers, are very difficult to approach. Everything & everyone is below them; not worth their time. If you lack any detail of some domain-knowledge of whatever treny new tech you're trying to ask about, you just get insulted(maybe accompanied by a vague hint at the answer). Basically, like this video[2]. 1. http://www.businessinsider.com/google-employees-confess-the-worst-things-about-working-at-google-2013-11?pundits_only=0&get_all_comments=1&no_reply_filter=1#comment-52768b7d69bedd692a53c738 http://www.businessinsider.com/google-employees-confess-the-... 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGkL6eQWOAI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGkL6eQWOAI 3. ...really? http://i.imgur.com/4aaH7GW.png http://i.imgur.com/4aaH7GW.png