[wootland]

> It’s getting tiring to read journalist pieces who look at the extreme outliers of tech (Holmes, SBF, Hsieh) and try to tell us that everyone is like this.

I think the message is that these people were created by throngs of investors, media and fan adulation. There's an entire culture of revering people from SBF to Elon Musk to Bill Gates to Marc Andreessen. Some of those people have exploded more spectacularly than others, but the mechanisms and culture that create them are the same.

[red-iron-pine]

> Some of those people have exploded more spectacularly than others, but the mechanisms and culture that create them are the same.

The culture is called "marketing", and firms want that to get investors or push a product. And it works.

[Maximus9000]

revering tech CEOs still seems better than the alternative. Outside of HN, most people revere celebs and athletes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-followed_Twitter_...

[morelisp]

Why? Taylor Swift seems like at least as good as businessperson as the median FAANG executive, plus has an actual skill.

[wootland]

I strongly disagree. Celebs and athletes are innocuous compared to billionaires and politicians.