In 'Brotopia,' Silicon Valley disrupts everything but the boys' club

How nerds became bros is one of the central stories in this book

Beware the callow misfit who becomes part of the ruling class; rather than disrupt the social order that excluded him, he might just reap its spoils for himself.

A number of the men depicted in Emily Chang’s Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley seem to be making up for lost experience, using their new-found wealth and power to get whatever it is they had previously been denied — mainly stuff, status and sex. “From its earliest days,” Ms Chang writes, “the industry has self-selected for men: First, antisocial nerds, then, decades later, self-confident and risk-taking bros.”

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