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There's an excellent Quora thread on this with 34 answers: http://www.quora.com/Silicon-Valley/Why-are-so-many-people-i...

People cite everything from arrogance as a defense mechanism against failure, to the necessity of entrepreneurial delusion, to youth, to denying that people in SV are arrogant at all.

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And I think we're starting to see all those same arguments made here in this comment thread.

I haven't even read the article, but I did just read this[1] and I agree very strongly that SV; particularly developers, are very difficult to approach. Everything & everyone is below them; not worth their time. If you lack any detail of some domain-knowledge of whatever treny new tech you're trying to ask about, you just get insulted(maybe accompanied by a vague hint at the answer). Basically, like this video[2].

1. http://www.businessinsider.com/google-employees-confess-the-...

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGkL6eQWOAI

3. ...really? http://i.imgur.com/4aaH7GW.png