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In Silicon Valley, a place he calls “obsessed with status and pedigree,” could someone’s ideas get traction when it wasn’t clear if the speaker was a state-school dropout or someone with a $100 million checkbook?

That sounds very different than the meritocracy narrative. It would explain why women and most minorities are so excluded.

I know the next sentence says he succeeded, but that's just one Twitter account and doesn't represent a broader trend.



Can you expand on what sounds very different? On its face your comment is self-contradictory.


A place "obsessed with status and pedigree" is not a meritocracy. Success depends on status and pedigree and not on merit.




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