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Passion may be the most overused word in Silicon Valley, but here it's unlikely to refer to romance. While the second-wave emigres may be socially savvy, the enthusiasm they bring to bear on their businesses is narrowly focused. Distractions, including relationships, are largely unwelcome...
There was something oddly charming about the geeks who made up the first wave of Internet entrepreneurs. Social misfits pounding out code in their computer-science labs--these people deserved professional success. But after the Wright Brothers, you get Frank Lorenzo. And so this summer Silicon Valley was flooded by the Second Wave: fast-talking business-school grads whose interest in technology is limited to how it will make them money. This is Silicon Valley in the IPO age. Geeks are history; they're all capitalists now. Netscape founder Marc Andreesen stars in a Miller Lite...
...every screenplay in L.A., there's a business plan in Silicon Valley. All it takes to launch the next Internet giant is a neat idea, a few connections and a lot of luck. Palo Alto even has its own Spago, where venture capitalists have become the Harvey Weinsteins and the pitches sound like "It's FogDog meets AskJeeves." Entrepreneurs even have their own snooty publicists. The agents will arrive shortly...
...Another Silicon Valley-based executive, age 33, bottom lines it this way: "For most people, relationships are simply not time-effective," he says. "People think having relationships with the opposite sex is nice, but if it gets in the way of making $3 million, forget it. They'll go to bars for a quick...
Taiwan, commercially successful as a legitimate competitor to Silicon Valley, has not achieved equivalent political success globally; the U.S. and the United Nations deny its sovereignty...