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That's not the real reason public opinion has shifted sharply against denizens of the Valley.

That would be Uber. A company so sociopathic, so awful, so entitled, so full of loathsome self-aggrandising bullies they became an unwitting figurehead for hatred of the Valley. And Uber make it so easy to hate them.

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The fact that Uber hasn't suffered any noticeable loss of business suggests that this is false. Or at least that it doesn't matter if people love you or not.

You don't have to be loved to be profitable. That said Uber is currently neither, nor is it likely to be any time soon.

But my point is that Uber's reputation plumbing the abyssal depths, and to a lesser extent AirBnB's, is dragging down the reputation of the rest of the valley.

Comcast is the poster child for hated but profitable.

I think those early SV days were probably not that way. Hard to see Hewlett and Packard or the folks at Fairchild or some of the other firms out there acting the way SV folks act in 2017.

Can you imagine Bill Hewlett kicking some kids off a field because he had reserved it for his kick-ball team?

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