Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

The CEOs of these other start-ups were no different from Ross, either. They had all read the same Ayn Rand books. These chief executives shared the same quotes on Facebook as he did: “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” The leaders of these companies all preached the same verbiage as the Dread Pirate Roberts to

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I think the fact that Vinod was talking about it helped, as an outside instigator. But we never would have made it through if we had not been friends. I think you needed something stronger than greed pulling people together at that moment when greed alone would have caused huge fractures in redistributing. In the end, I think it made a lot of sense

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But today there are more people "helping the builders" than actually building, fighting one another in a zero-sum game for allocation in competitive deals. Incredibly, being an investor has become one of the highest status jobs in Silicon Valley — higher even than playing an important operating role at a great company. This has led to an over

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