The Great Sorting in Silicon Valley
he moral reckoning that came for the structural rot in Hollywood, Music, and Politics has finally triggered the Great Sorting in Silicon Valley.
The era of Extractive Performance is expiring: vanity signals (TechCrunch, billboards, sauna invites), 'growth at any human cost', the 'move fast and break things' excuse for moral bankruptcy. It's all done.
Builder, Rabbit, Humane, Pickle, Delve, others. These aren't accidents or outliers; they're symptoms of a paradigm where VCs monetize Credentialing Arbitrage over actual Alpha; often at the long-term expense of their own LPs.
If you think these controversies are blips you can bury with PR firms, you're misreading the room and the physics of the decade.
Welcome to the architecture of Sovereign Integrity. The 'New' New World Order. Party's over.
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