I thought some aspects of this were interesting, but the emphasis on money felt tacky. Money is a motivator, but it is not an end to itself. The author appears to support this notion, but sets an arbitrarily high net worth of 5*10^6 and talks about how miserable it was to be "successful." I don't know. To me, all this money is a big problem in the valley. On the one hand, it's great, because there is a lot of extra money around for cool things to get done. On the other hand, there are people that are just around for the money and it feels tasteless and I have personally found it very unpleasant to work with people who hav ambition for money and the prestige. And there are a lot of people like that right now. Maybe I have been blessed to have grown up around some exceptionally succesful, but humble people. Just my 2 cents, though.