One of the things I hated most about the 2005-2010 workplace transition in Silicon Valley was all the Wall Street rats leaving their sinking Mortgage crisis ship.
Harvard, Princeton... all the old white male money kids flooded into SF looking for someplace to launder daddy money.
Remember how 1984 also gave us the Macintosh ad, the hammer through Big Brother's screen? It was sold by the guy who went on to build the tightest walled garden in consumer computing.
The attention-seeking leader type was there in the 80s; he just hadn't won yet. TRS80 and Commodore were way ahead of that arrogant asshat. Commodore outsold everybody (C64 is still the best-selling single computer model ever) and the man who ran it was an Auschwitz survivor from Łódź who learned repair in the US Army and sold typewriters in the Bronx. "Computers for the masses, not the classes" was his line. Tandy was a Fort Worth leather-goods company selling through Radio Shack strip malls.
Apple was knock-off crap. Seriously.
Then some MIT/Harvard knobs released Visicalc and Apple got a foothold in corporate offices, and some Sunnyvale elitists wrote everyone out of the story that mattered.
The quiet professionals were the vast majority, not the whole story, but the obnoxious libertarian loud minority is who the 2010s finance kids chased as their bogus hero.
