How Silicon Valley Came to Be a Land of ‘Bros’
How Silicon Valley Came to Be a Land of ‘Bros’
SAN FRANCISCO — Emily Chang caused a mini earthquake in Silicon Valley last month when Vanity Fair published an excerpt from her new book, “Brotopia.”
With a headline that promised to bring us inside Silicon Valley’s “secretive, orgiastic dark side,” Ms. Chang laid out
how drug-fueled sex parties were happening behind the scenes at the homes of wealthy tech executives and investors.
Those men decided, in screening about 1,200 men and 200 women,
that good programmers don’t like people — that they have a complete disinterest in people.
Ms. Chang, 37, who anchors a Bloomberg TV tech show, recently discussed the roots of Silicon Valley’s gender imbalance
and the predominance of tech industry bros — you know, those cocky young men who swagger about.
In “Brotopia,” which hits book stores on Feb. 6, the secret sex parties are just a symptom of a much deeper problem
that Silicon Valley’s tech industry has with its treatment of women.
EC I understand that this is new territory and that it might make people uncomfortable, but no good change comes without people feeling uncomfortable.
PWT After the Vanity Fair excerpt, you were criticized by some in the tech industry for describing the secret sex parties.
SAN FRANCISCO — Emily Chang caused a mini earthquake in Silicon Valley last month when Vanity Fair published an excerpt from her new book, “Brotopia.”
With a headline that promised to bring us inside Silicon Valley’s “secretive, orgiastic dark side,” Ms. Chang laid out
how drug-fueled sex parties were happening behind the scenes at the homes of wealthy tech executives and investors.
Those men decided, in screening about 1,200 men and 200 women,
that good programmers don’t like people — that they have a complete disinterest in people.
Ms. Chang, 37, who anchors a Bloomberg TV tech show, recently discussed the roots of Silicon Valley’s gender imbalance
and the predominance of tech industry bros — you know, those cocky young men who swagger about.
In “Brotopia,” which hits book stores on Feb. 6, the secret sex parties are just a symptom of a much deeper problem
that Silicon Valley’s tech industry has with its treatment of women.
EC I understand that this is new territory and that it might make people uncomfortable, but no good change comes without people feeling uncomfortable.
PWT After the Vanity Fair excerpt, you were criticized by some in the tech industry for describing the secret sex parties.