It&#x27;s interesting to me that my friends and I who grew up in SV and lived through the .com boom as adolescents and had parents who worked during the .com and PC&#x2F;networking&#x2F;semiconductor booms are largely skeptical and at times even dismissive of the latest incarnation of SV culture.<p>Perhaps it&#x27;s hubris (&quot;the old version --my version-- was better&quot;), perhaps it&#x27;s cynicism (seeing family&#x2F;friends be burned in the last booms), or perhaps it&#x27;s a feeling of betrayal (&quot;I grew up wanting to be part of a culture that has morphed -- in my opinion for the worse&quot;).<p>Maybe it&#x27;s something else. Though my sample size is small, I find this contrast interesting.<p>Perhaps it&#x27;s just a numbers thing where newcomers predominantly buy into the current myth and want to live the current version of startup life, whereas the old timers have not self selected in that manner and this represent a wider spectrum.