> In San Francisco, it’s very different. You can be a techie like Marissa Mayer, and on the red carpet and have people comment on your awesome date or outfit.

Er... I think if you're the vice president of a company, any company, with nearly $60 billion dollars worth of assets then you'll be invited to a red carpet event.

You're even more likely to be invited if that same company is always in the news under such hot topics as "pulls out of china due to foreign hacking", "driverless cars" and "did Do No Evil Inc., do evil?".

Honestly, you could do better than pick a Google VP as an example of a techie being treated as high status, only because they're in San Fran.