[etrautmann]

The swing towards tech as a default prestige career over finance and banking started after the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent aftermath. The iPhone was released in 2009, Facebook had already been growing for 6 years, and google was already big and the cool place to work.

[listenallyall]

It started in the mid 1990s. The common thought was, why join an investment bank and underwrite some random dude's IPO when I can start my own company and by 28 it'll be MY company going public?

[derwiki]

iPhone was released in 2007