It’s Friday. The Bay Area/Silicon Valley can feel like the center of the universe at times for a tech entrepreneur. The four main castes branched off into tens of thousands of sub-castes, categorized generally by occupation, with a fairly strict pecking order and social order. The Messed Up Truth About What Goes On In Silicon Valley Silicon Valley is unbelievably expensive. Whenever we hear the term “Silicon Valley”, our ears perk up as we begin to take keen interest in knowing what the conversation is about. The chance to help build the future, chase their dreams, and become obscenely wealthy lures the best and the brightest, leading to not only unkept promises but also shattered lives. A different Facebook employee showed The Guardian his signed contract allowing the company "to monitor and record his social media activities, including his personal Facebook account, as well as emails, phone calls and internet use. In spite of Silicon Valley skewing young and educated, and regardless of political and corporate leaders encouraging diversity efforts, the tech world is pretty lily-white. A yogi at heart I work to blend the work of daily living with my family and community with my full presence. Stanford Universityleadership was especially important in … From the internet to social media to Amazon delivery to smartphones and electric cars, the guys and gals in Silicon Valley are part of our daily lives in a way that few corporations in history ever have been. If there is one thing the internet and Hollywood knows, it's that misanthropic men make the best programmers. The cons of working in Silicon Valley for millennials Cost of living is through the roof San Francisco is frequently cited in the top five most expensive cities to live in the U.S. Unsurprisingly, a major concern for potential candidates is the exceptionally high housing costs, an issue that current Valley residents are worried about also. Y ou wake up at 6:30 a.m. after an Ambien-induced sleep. Prayer connects us with God and unleashes His power. As the Wharton interviewer said, "Some companies want to have their employees putting in 16-hour days. They think about how we can move faster to a brighter tomorrow. For Pete's sake, the San Francisco Chronicle reported in 2019 that the median annual salary of a Google employee was almost $250,000. These rules are not explained anywhere, nor are they easy to understand even if you’re playing the game. So many CEOs and co-founders have penned public apologies for their company's death that it's become a joke in the industry. TechRepublic reported that "Diversity efforts could net the IT industry an extra $400 billion in revenue each year." We practice Worship-Based Prayer. As Sun Microsystems co-founder and venture capitalist Vinod Khosla said in 2011, per The Washington Post: "People under 35 are the people who make change happen," and "people over 45 basically die in terms of new ideas." You'll find that many who live there believe that and you'll probably sense a bit of the arrogance we sensed. The ultimate goal of technology is to create efficiencies within other businesses or consumers lives." It costs so much to live there that, per The New York Times, "the federal government now classifies a family of four earning up to $117,400 as low-income.". A toxic combination of status posturing (very popular in the "hyper-alpha image driven tech world"), intense competition, and insanely high-dollar expectations is driving many Silicon Valley residents to suicide, especially, and dreadfully predictably, "after a young individual's business fails.". Sixty-eight percent of tech Baby Boomers report being discouraged from applying for jobs because of their age. If that sounds like a broad generalization based on inherent characteristics, congratulations, you've discovered age discrimination. People don't want to work with older people whose careers are less stellar than what they (naively, stupidly) think awaits them." Cities pitching themselves as the "next Silicon Valley" are missing the truth about tech jobs. See, what I’ve learned in my short time living and playing within arguably the most competitive startup scene in country, and certainly in the Top 5 of the world, is that this game operates by different rules. The good news is that not only are tech companies really doing much more to hire underrepresented minorities nowadays, but the industry may finally be aware of the consumer dollars they're missing out on by staying so homogenous. Share. Why would you need to go anywhere else? Silicon Valley lies in Santa Clara County, home to more federal superfund sites — areas so polluted that the feds have to come in and clean it up specially — than any other county in the nation. It is a pretty stressed out place. Refusing to agree to these activities would itself be counted as an employee violation. Islamophobia Still Plagues Muslims Living in the Silicon Valley - Campbell, CA - A new study surveyed more than 1,100 Muslims living in the Bay Area. Amazing museums, a vibrant art scene, great weather, the best and newest technology in the world, and more money than God attracts young people from all over the world to Silicon Valley. Students and adults alike were snotty about people who would go to community college / "low tier college" (i.e. Sunnyvale lie… für Silicium-Tal) ist einer der bedeutendsten Standorte der IT- und Hightech-Industrie weltweit. Silicon Valley’s hottest month is in April where the temperature reaches an average high of 77°F (25°C). For instance, there has been a 325-percent increase in men getting cosmetic surgery, "Brotox," in the last five years. As well as being slow, San Francisco public transit breaks down so frequently that it is "at the bottom of its peer group for most problem-prone transportation.". --Chris Raymond, "Very poor [public transit] for a region that is viewed by the rest of the US as a collection of crunchy granola-loving tree-huggers. Google's Mountain View employees enjoy pool tables, a bowling alley, retro arcade games, volleyball courts, free haircuts, free massages, and free gourmet food. There's a really cool sense of innovation in Silicon Valley that makes it one of the most popular destinations in the world. To avoid paying for benefits like sick leave or health care, it's a common practice in Silicon Valley to hire everything from programmers and engineers to janitors and cooks as contractors or through staffing agencies. You always hear about the winners living in mansions, but the average SV engineer puts in 10 hours a day and commutes another 1 or 2 hours a day. "I grew up in an educationally arrogant environment. Logitech, which made a lot of money from the computer mouse, one … On the other hand, Silicon Valley literally sits atop a toxic waste dump. India's caste system, the BBC explains, "divides Hindus into rigid hierarchical groups based on their karma (work) and dharma (the Hindi word for religion, but here it means duty)." Save. You've got everything at work. Better Act Nice Better Act Nice What happened when a venture capitalist told the truth about a Mark Zuckerberg-backed start-up. It is a natural progression. Tech companies have stunned the corporate world with their weird and wacky employee perks. The Intercept revealed in 2019 the extent to which Silicon Valley is working with China to build massive surveillance platforms. If this is the case, the entire country and Silicon Valley will be better for it. They tickle your fancy with baubles while hiring you as a contract worker and/or slashing any chance to get promotions, job security in general, or, (surprise, surprise) health care. The LA Times reported in 2020 that Cisco Systems, specifically two Indian engineers, was being sued by California state regulators on behalf of another Indian engineer. The odds are good, but the goods are odd. Ageism is so prevalent in Silicon Valley culture that many men (the tech world is massively male-dominated) are spending a lot of money on possible workarounds. --Min Ju Lee, Google X, "There are plenty of self-proclaimed 'mentors' fishing around to be an adviser to your nascent startup. They recount a survey of tech workers in which 80 percent of employees over the age of 40 are worried about the impact their age will have on their careers. Not only were women some of the earliest programmers, but a team of six women programmed ENIAC, the first electronic, general-purpose computer. To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. They end up eating equity and not doing much except just keep connecting you to other useless people. --Jason Lemkin, founder of Echosign and SaaStr, "If you're a guy (and chances are that you're a guy) don't come to SV looking for a girl because more than likely you won't have much luck. --Jeff Pilisuk, Founder / Owner iEnso Consulting, "The overly competitive adults pushed their kids to be overly competitive. Emily Chang investigated, as she wrote in a 2018 Vanity Fair column, "Inside Silicon Valley's secretive, orgiastic dark side." Silicon Valley is the U.S. center for innovative technology companies. Cleantech investments and patents are down. Photo: yhelfman via iStock/Getty Images Plus. We got distracted by all this fun and kooky stuff over here, and they changed the deal on the back end for us." --Jenny Du, "The danger of being in a techno-centered place is that everything non-techno seems to recede in importance. Silicon Valley has the tragic honor of being one of the planet's suicide capitals. The dominance of tech bros hasn't merely created a sexist atmosphere making it difficult for women to compete — it has codified the gender imbalance into a not-quite-underground but not-quite-acknowledged party scene fueled by drugs, sex, and double standards. Silicon Valley’s moguls instead place their faith in technological progress, and the hope that we need only invent our way out of our grief. The high cost of living that Silicon Valley poses makes it hard for the owners of start-up companies to be able to live a regular lifestyle, even if they somehow arrange for … We Love God’s Word. "Nine out of 10 startups fail," explained Fortune, "which is why the failure post-mortem has become so common that it's practically a Silicon Valley cliché. According to Payscale, cost of living in the Valley is actually 100 percent more than the national average. 2  This proximity to suppliers, customers, and cutting-edge research gives each a competitive advantage. If you want to start at any airport (SFO/OAK/SJC) and make a complete loop around the Bay, you will have to use 4 separate transit networks in a best case scenario." As KQED explains, California in general has extremely high housing costs compared to the rest of the country. They also fail to qualify for an EB-5 green card because they usually lack the requisite $500,000 to $1,000,000 investment. 1  It's home to 2,000 tech companies, the densest concentration in the world. 11 min read. Silicon Valley enjoys around 300 days of sunshine a year. According to a 2018 San Francisco Chronicle article, "San Francisco has some of the slowest, most prone to break down public transit" when compared to some of the largest metro areas in the country. ", Anyone lucky enough to be working for the companies that survive may actually not be as lucky as you'd think, mainly because they may not technically be working for the company after all. It's funny, then, that we know so little of what goes on there — especially considering how much they know about us. They are … Life in Silicon Valley is generally safe, and the Los Altos Hills has the lowest number of crimes in an average year (just 5.54 per 1,000 residents). Does Silicon Valley Still Care About Climate Change? “The Truth about America’s Silicon Valley"-Presidential Plots & legal psychopaths “Riveting and insightful regarding progressivism and the social upheavals living in the Silicon Valley.” -John Yoo – Law Professor  “Book sounds interesting and worthy of reading.” - Rand Paul-Senator  ", For a variety of reasons that reasonable people (and more than a few unreasonable ones, natch) can and do argue about, Silicon Valley is expensive to live in. --Pallav Sharda, ex-physician, now in digital health, "Sold your networking company for $2 billion, but no one has heard of it today? We just work our a** off to keep making our housing payments." Das Silicon Valley [ˌsɪlɪkn ˈvæli] (engl. Everyone wanted their kid to be the best and they put a lot of pressure on their kids." Silicon Valley| 10 Shocking Facts About The Mysterious Tech Hub in California! Even with a Tesla on every corner, electric scooters on every sidewalk, some of the coolest and greenest office buildings in the world, and an outsized portion of the world's smartest and richest people, Silicon Valley is still hell to navigate. Lone males, in their basement, shunning human contact in favor of digital desires, are the coders and creators that made our 21st century possible. In fact, according to TechRepublic, 83 percent of tech executives are white, over 50 percent of Google and Apple employees are white, and less than half as many Black and Hispanic people work in tech than in the rest of the private economy. I I POLICE What we're doing here in sort of Silicon Valley comparable to the industrial revolution or even Gutenberg's printing press right. Share. There’s something about the sound that makes it all seem so intellectual and ambitious. "Often, even the notion of Superfund sites is foreign to many people. As if that wasn't bad enough, the Valley is being hit by the same Covid-related spikes in suicides that much of the world is seeing. Working in Silicon Valley isn't all ping-pong tables, kombucha bars, and food trucks. As if the conditions of the roads weren't bad enough, they are also choked by what, according to the Silicon Valley Business Journal, is the fifth-worst traffic in the country, losing San Francisco residents an average of 78 hours a year. He also agreed to random personal searches of his belongings including bags, briefcases and car while on company premises." People love to say this about the singles scene in Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley was born through the intersection of several contributing factors including a skilled science research base housed in area universities, plentiful venture capital, and steady U.S. Department of Defensespending. He still struggles to get by, paying thousands of dollars in childcare, rent and other bills each month while trying to climb the ladder to success as a person of color in a predominantly white, affluent tech community. "You get on their bad side," an anonymous Facebook employee told The Guardian in 2018, "and all of a sudden you are face to face with [Facebook CEO] Mark Zuckerberg's secret police." AUTHOR: BLUE WALLACE; POSTED ON: 28/Dec/2020 --}} Shares. Given Hollywood depictions of Silicon Valley, one could think that it's populated exclusively by Indian, Chinese, and even-whiter-than-normal white men. This story first appeared on Business Insider. If they somehow can personally invest this capital, it is usually not enough to meet the EB-5 employment requirement of hiring ten full-time employees due to the high cost of living in Silicon Valley. It's worth remembering that succeeding in business at any level is a struggle and, as reported by Investopedia, only 25 percent of businesses last 15 years or longer. Bay Area Rapid Transit does not circle the Bay. History does not repeat, but it does rhyme. September is the wettest month with an average rainfall of 10 inches (240mm). The OpenPower Foundation, a nonprofit led by Google and IBM, "is helping China's authoritarian government conduct mass surveillance against its citizens." There are 23, according to Quartz. Buried in the ground all over Silicon Valley are the pollutants and chemicals left behind from all of the silicon chips and semiconductors built there during the manufacturing boom from the mid-1960s to mid-1980s. --Mark Schnewart, "Long hours and high pressure lifestyle, for years. Walter Frick; May 30, 2017 Tweet. Facebook offers everything from ping-pong tables to all-day breakfast, lunch, and dinner. We have lost grasp on what the word ‘problem’ means. Human beings have no shortage of ways to discriminate against each other. We're living in exceptional times right. As an individual, I write to speak my truth… All men, of course. Learn how to code with Python 3 for Data Science and Software Engineering. I am a seeker living in Silicon Valley. As Dan Lyons, author of Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us, summarized to the Wharton School of Business, "Oh, we got tricked. We're sure you're shocked to learn that everything in that previous sentence was wrong. When I lived there, I was enrolled in ice skating, piano, violin, and drawing lessons by the age of 7. --Jacob Vincent, "There is a pretty extreme lack of diversity in Silicon Valley. And while the first installment indicates that the series will be highly entertaining, they are likely to come with a heavy dose of Silicon Valley insight. This is a different way of life, a different … Working in one of the largest tech hubs in the world can have its drawbacks. Environmentalism is at the heart of much of what happens in Silicon Valley, from Apple's 100-percent clean energy-powered data centers to Tesla's electric everything, tech companies are often at the forefront of cleaner, more efficient, Earth-friendly practices. The systems run or designed by OpenPower enable the Chinese government to spy on, track, and censor the information for a quarter of China's internet users — a whopping 200 million people. But the battle isn’t over, Jenkins said, as living in Silicon Valley presents its own set of challenges. --Paul Núñez, student researcher, "It's not that anyone believes that older (40+) programmers become incompetent because that's clearly untrue, but there's extremely harsh age grading in this ecosystem. --Nancy Roberts, "The dark side of silicon valley is that they are part of the machine that creates a massive divide between the rich and the poor. Now, we know that although computers can automate, they still require someone to operate and provide more efficiency versus job replacement. Walter Frick; by . It's a tough area to sell culture (everybody is working so hard ALL the time) and to have a social life. For instance, the truth that “at some point in Silicon Valley you’ve either worked with, for, or against every other person in Silicon Valley.” (Marissa … Silicon Valley does not just need a high budget to establish a company, it also needs a high budget for livelihood. --Michael O. The 2021 Fastest-Growing Private Companies. Race, color, religion, nationality, sexuality, whether one is a Yankees fan, and more have all been used as excuses for hatred and bigotry. This was the bare minimum though, most families had their kids preparing for the SATs before high school or going to extra tutoring outside of classes that they didn't need. Los Altos itself has the fewest violent crimes at … We are used to taking for granted the safety of the environment we inhabit.". That Facebook, Google, et al know way too much about us is probably well-known by now. According to journalist Emily Chang, in the 60's and '70s, programmers were in such high demand that a company contracted two psychologists to profile who would make the best programmers, and they basically arbitrarily figured that good programmers are anti-social nerds. My guess is that they do it because by amassing a huge collection of startups they 'advise', they can hope for at least one of them going Instagram." Tweet. Silicon Valley lauds its pioneers but doesn't know what to do with them if they keep living. Unfortunately for tech employees and contractors who want to talk publicly about their working conditions or misconduct within the company, the Stanford Center for Internet and Society told The Guardian, the types of things Facebook is alleged to have done "are common, widespread, intrusive and legal.". Google and NASA both have campuses in the Valley that, along with schools, homes, parks, and businesses filled with millions of people, sit above actual toxic waste. These rules do not make sense to 99.8% of the population. Tech executives have been brought before congressional committees multiple times, sort of answering questions about privacy protections and data access. "Most people I talked to in the community seemed unaware of their presence," she told The New York Times. The messed up truth about Silicon Valley is that the place is filled with a lot of the same problems the rest of us have, plus quite a few more. Post. The most valuable intellectual property in the world is, as PBS described, an obvious target for spies from places like China, and protecting their corporate secrets really is important. Unfortunately for Silicon Valley denizens, however, the area is also cartoonishly expensive, and those high wages go far shorter than one would expect. Silicon Valley investors aren’t supposed to think like midcentury Madison Avenue suits. Civil rights icon Jesse Jackson was protesting the lack of diversity in Silicon Valley over 20 years ago. Its coldest month is in January, where the average temperature plummets to 72°F (22°C)! You're too low on the pecking order. Women are expected to dress up, put out, and shut up. If there's one thing everyone knows about Silicon Valley, it's that absurdly rich people live there. Facebook and the gang spying on us, as USA Today explains, is basically just business as usual by now, so it may not come as the biggest surprise that many of the major tech players are building really intrusive toys for China to create a surveillance state to make Big Brother jealous. I ask for anonymity as I am writing to represent a large group of men and women who are awakening to the truth inside of large tech hubs based in Silicon Valley. Das Silicon Valley umfasst das Santa Clara Valley und die südliche Hälfte der Halbinsel von San Francisco und reicht von San Mateo bis nach San José. The guys and girls of Silicon Valley really didn't need to out-Orwell them. From roads that would fit right in Baghdad circa 2004 to public transportation barely worth the name, Silicon Valley has surprisingly bad infrastructure. Get PDF. And, like most clichés, there’s a kernel of truth to it. And that is a mantra of the young, the agile, those without pensions: the people building tomorrow — not those already living in it. --Randy Andrews. [1][2] Es ist geografisch der südliche Teil der San Francisco Bay Area, der Metropolregion um die Städte San Francisco und San José. We sifted through the post to pull together 13 of the worst things about living in Silicon Valley. They put in [...] fun, niche things so that they can have their break in the office and not be that far away from their desk.". Although illegal in India for decades, the country is still dominated by caste prejudice, and many of the Indians who have migrated to Silicon Valley have apparently brought their caste prejudices with them. China already does plenty of creepy things to and with people who live there, like assigning them a social credit score, requiring them to get permission to move, or having them submit to facial recognition scans just to buy a new phone. According to the California Management Review, "In the last decade, suicide rates have grown four ti[m]es higher at top tier high schools in Palo Alto than the national average." Silicon Valley is, for better or worse, responsible for a whole lot of life in the 21st century. Prayer is not just about seeking God’s help; it is about seeking … One of civilization's oldest forms of prejudice actually blends most of those together into a discriminatory system that's been dividing billions of people for at least 3,000 years. A lot of the best parts of Silicon Valley can be – and will be - exported elsewhere. silicon valley stories my views on the market, venture capital, tech, investment, management, leadership, twitter summaries and everything else while living in silicon valley Pages It's located south of San Francisco, California. Turns out this isn't exactly a revelation, either to the people who live there or to civil rights leaders. From this humbly sexist origin, an entire industry has been transformed in its misogynistic likeness. You can't marry outside of your caste or work or live among higher castes, and you must always defer to a person of a higher caste. The Messed Up Truth About What Goes On In Silicon Valley. The truth is that while Silicon Valley does provide amazing opportunities and experiences, it is still faced with its own challenges and downsides. Want to Do Business in Silicon Valley? Buses drive 2 mph slower than average, and the city light rail system goes 5 mph slower. It is our single guide and blueprint for Life. San Jose Inside reported in 2020 that over 60 percent of roads in San Jose are designated "poor" quality by federal regulators. "Men were interested in building, the hardware," said author Walter Isaacson to NPR, "And women were very good mathematicians back then." But open spaces, sleeping pods, and yoga studios aren't the benefits — they're the bait. “There are truths about the valley that we kind of all have internalized, but we don’t say them out loud,” Malone says. The hard truth is that success in the tech world is difficult at best, as 90 percent of startups fail. https://www.inc.com/business-insider/worst-things-about-living-in-silicon-valley.html by . A lot of people think Silicon Valley is a cool place to live, but it has its own dark side, too — including these 13 things we found on Quora. The percentage of computer sciences degrees awarded to females plummeted from almost 40 percent then to less than 20 percent now. His allegations have been followed by reporting in The Wire that almost 70 percent of lower-caste Indians experience discrimination at work in America. Hundreds of billions dollars in investment flow through the Valley, and the products they make there not only disrupt existing industries but can be worth many billions by themselves. Some of the highest average wages on the planet and extravagant lifestyle benefits surely make Silicon Valley the place financial dreams are made of. Illustration by Laurent Hrybyk. Burns is skeptical. Silicon Valley, like every Innovation Hub before it, will follow the Innovation Hub Cycle. We want to be a people who have been transformed by the power of the Spirit through the truth and authority of God’s Word. SJSU, and even highly ranked schools like UC Davis) because everyone's parents had a Ph.D from a prestigious university." Unfortunately, rather than a modern-day Midas touch, for a whole lot of people working there, Silicon Valley is more the touch of financial death. But at least you can be on the Auction Committee at our kids' school. So many roads and walkways need refurbishment, in fact, that, "City officials last year announced a nine-year plan to repave 1,490 miles of residential streets." I’m a tech worker in Silicon Valley, and my company recently informed us that we can work remotely indefinitely. Unfortunately, there is both a lot of truth and a lot of lie in that stereotype. If there's one thing everyone knows about Silicon Valley, it's that absurdly... Ageism is rampant in Silicon Valley. Federica Armstrong, a photographer living in Santa Clara County, has been documenting California's superfund sites. A seeker of truth, knowledge, compassion, empathy, happiness, laughter basically anything that has to do with the human condition. "Move fast and break things" was the Facebook ethos for a long time. The odds are stacked against you on two fronts: quantity and money." Also, if you're immersed in the SiliValley mythology, you start to believe that technology has the answer to every problem and that there is a silver bullet for everything." CNBC reported the results of a 2018 survey revealing that at some of the Valley's biggest players, like Google, Twitter, and Facebook, fewer than three percent of tech workers are Black. Thank you for curating your daily news delivery so pointedly in ensure we hear and have the opportunity to understand truth. Hiring prejudice against those on the grayer side of 35 is not only widespread in Silicon Valley, but there are 28 percent more age discrimination lawsuits brought against Valley employers than even ones based on race, according to Menlo Partners Staffing, a Valley recruiting firm. Silicon Valley may be peddled as the place where dreams come true, where garage inventions become billion-dollar corporate behemoths and college dropouts earn more money than Scrooge McDuck, but the reality of the promised land of technology can be far, far different. If you or anyone you know is having suicidal thoughts, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline​ at​ 1-800-273-TALK (8255)​. The national Disaster Distress Helpline reported a 900-percent increase in calls between May 2019 and May of this year, according to the San Jose Spotlight, and the number of people taken to Silicon Valley-area hospitals doubled between February and May this year. Church, "Don't get too caught up in the hype. And very few investors or entrepreneurs are willing to discuss it...Investors and entrepreneurs talk about the Silicon Valley startup world as a meritocracy, and perhaps that's true for those who are able to gain entry into this community.
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