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The running joke these days is that you know your startup is failing if it switches from LaCroix to Talking Rain

— Elaine Strauss, The LaCroix guide to tapping 'micro-influencers'

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Silicon Valley is, at its core, a caustic long-form portrayal of the mediocrity at the heart of the American dream.

— David Sims, Silicon Valley and the Perils of Tech Success

Silicon Valley Technology

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I slide a piece of salmon into the June, one of the most advanced ovens ever built. Loaded with a camera, temperature probe, Wi-Fi, and algorithms, it'll cost you $1,500. It required nearly $30 million in venture capital to create.

— Mark Wilson, This $1,500 Toaster Oven Is Everything That's Wrong With Silicon Valley Design

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It's amazing we have this incredible tech thing going on in Silicon Valley, and if you go just to the East Bay, across the Bay Bridge or the Dumbarton Bridge, you're in this basically failing state, this failing state that, you know, in the next recession probably will go broke.

— Peter Thiel, Peter Thiel: East Bay is 'basically a failing state,' will probably go broke in 'next recession'

Silicon Valley East Bay Bay Bridge Failed States Wealth Inequality

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Silicon Valley plan to solve poverty:

1: Invite-only event on Stanford campus
2. Palantir demo
3. Uber ride home

— Pinboard, via twitter.com

Silicon Valley Tech Equality

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Most of all, the June is a product built less for you, the user, and more for its own ever-impending perfection as a platform.

— Mark Wilson, This $1,500 Toaster Oven Is Everything That's Wrong With Silicon Valley Design

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The Trump campaign slogan, ‘Make America Great Again,’ was perhaps the single most offensive thing you could say to Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley says the future is going to be better than the past. That is the propaganda, if you will.

— Peter Thiel, Peter Thiel: Silicon Valley is a ‘totalitarian place’

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Maybe it’s time for Silicon Valley to tone things down. To admit that, no, the Valley can’t solve all human problems -- not even close -- and never will.

— Keith Emmer, Commentary: Thiel shows why tech billionaires are the new robber barons

Silicon Valley Tech Gawker Peter Thiel Hulk vs Gawker

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In Silicon Valley, the information that wants to be free is almost always the information that belongs to someone else.

— Robert Levine, Free Ride: How Digital Parasites are Destroying the Culture Business, and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back

Free Information Silicon Valley

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The investors, mostly from China, accounted for 40% of the $154 billion in global venture financing last year — the most ever — up from under 5% a decade ago.

— Yasufumi Saito and Phred Dvorak, Silicon Valley Powered American Tech Dominance—Now It Has a Challenger

Silicon Valley Financial Warfare Venture Capital

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When people are unanimously on one side, that tells me not that they’ve all figured out the truth but that they are in sort of a totalitarian place, that they are in a one-party state where they are not allowed to have dissenting views.

— Peter Thiel, Peter Thiel: Silicon Valley is a ‘totalitarian place’

Conformity Totalitarianism Oppressive Silicon Valley

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The bigger you are, the more the government is going to get inside what you do and impose rules and standards. Sometimes for good, sometimes not for good.

— Jamie Dimon, Jamie Dimon, Chairman, President, and CEO of JPMorgan Chase

Government Finance Regulation Silicon Valley

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There's a sense here that failure is not the death knell, that it actually can be a badge of honor and a learning experience. All of our country would benefit from having that attitude towards failure.

— Laurene Powell Jobs, What does billionaire Laurene Powell Jobs want?

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Growth becomes the overriding motivation — something treasured for its own sake, not for anything it brings to the world.

— Noam Cohen, Silicon Valley Is Not Your Friend

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The running joke these days is that you know your startup is failing if it switches from LaCroix to Talking Rain

— Elaine Strauss, The LaCroix guide to tapping 'micro-influencers'

Silicon Valley is, at its core, a caustic long-form portrayal of the mediocrity at the heart of the American dream.

— David Sims, Silicon Valley and the Perils of Tech Success

I slide a piece of salmon into the June, one of the most advanced ovens ever built. Loaded with a camera, temperature probe, Wi-Fi, and algorithms, it'll cost you $1,500. It required nearly $30 million in venture capital to create.

— Mark Wilson, This $1,500 Toaster Oven Is Everything That's Wrong With Silicon Valley Design

It's amazing we have this incredible tech thing going on in Silicon Valley, and if you go just to the East Bay, across the Bay Bridge or the Dumbarton Bridge, you're in this basically failing state, this failing state that, you know, in the next recession probably will go broke.

— Peter Thiel, Peter Thiel: East Bay is 'basically a failing state,' will probably go broke in 'next recession'

Silicon Valley plan to solve poverty:

1: Invite-only event on Stanford campus
2. Palantir demo
3. Uber ride home

— Pinboard, via twitter.com

Most of all, the June is a product built less for you, the user, and more for its own ever-impending perfection as a platform.

— Mark Wilson, This $1,500 Toaster Oven Is Everything That's Wrong With Silicon Valley Design

The Trump campaign slogan, ‘Make America Great Again,’ was perhaps the single most offensive thing you could say to Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley says the future is going to be better than the past. That is the propaganda, if you will.

— Peter Thiel, Peter Thiel: Silicon Valley is a ‘totalitarian place’

Maybe it’s time for Silicon Valley to tone things down. To admit that, no, the Valley can’t solve all human problems -- not even close -- and never will.

— Keith Emmer, Commentary: Thiel shows why tech billionaires are the new robber barons

In Silicon Valley, the information that wants to be free is almost always the information that belongs to someone else.

— Robert Levine, Free Ride: How Digital Parasites are Destroying the Culture Business, and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back

The investors, mostly from China, accounted for 40% of the $154 billion in global venture financing last year — the most ever — up from under 5% a decade ago.

— Yasufumi Saito and Phred Dvorak, Silicon Valley Powered American Tech Dominance—Now It Has a Challenger

When people are unanimously on one side, that tells me not that they’ve all figured out the truth but that they are in sort of a totalitarian place, that they are in a one-party state where they are not allowed to have dissenting views.

— Peter Thiel, Peter Thiel: Silicon Valley is a ‘totalitarian place’

The bigger you are, the more the government is going to get inside what you do and impose rules and standards. Sometimes for good, sometimes not for good.

— Jamie Dimon, Jamie Dimon, Chairman, President, and CEO of JPMorgan Chase

There's a sense here that failure is not the death knell, that it actually can be a badge of honor and a learning experience. All of our country would benefit from having that attitude towards failure.

— Laurene Powell Jobs, What does billionaire Laurene Powell Jobs want?

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