>> "The biggest, fastest-growing companies in the world are run and staffed by us, and mainstream culture has shifted from mocking us to respect. ...We’ve won.

>> "The biggest, fastest-growing companies in the world are run and staffed by us, and mainstream culture has shifted from mocking us to respect. ...We’ve won. We’re still behaving like the rebel alliance, but now we’re the Empire." The author has clearly never met Big Finance, Big Real Estate, or Big Insurance. It is flattering to inflate our (nerds') importance to Darth-Vader like levels, but frankly we're still a sideshow.