It seems like chasing golden unicorn super smart bois has been more of a problem than a solution in SV and companies like google. It starts to look like a schoolyard game or mensa.

I'll just get the smartest of the smarts and rule the world! If I only get the alphas of the alphas, I'll surely win.

Reminds me of all the NBA players getting schooled in FIBA, because the international teams have better chemistry. At one point they had to do a total re-boot, because it was so embarrassing.

I know of at least one second tier, non-sv shop that goes hard to hire the best developers in terms of intelligence. It actually leads to huge quality problems during recruiting and poor diversity. There's just something about mega-nerds with extremely poor social skills that keeps the women and minorities away.

What I'm talking about isn't just awkwardness and lacking charisma. I'm talking about randomly telling women that they can tell she is on her period and things like that.