Jerks and the start-ups they ruin

Bro culture favours good-looking, cocky young men at everyone else's expense

The tech industry has a problem with “bro culture”. People have been complaining about it for years. Yet nobody has done much to fix it.

That may finally change, if the people in charge of Silicon Valley — venture capitalists, who control the money — start to realise that the real problem with tech bros is not just that they’re boorish jerks. It’s that they’re boorish jerks who don’t know how to run companies.

Look at Uber, the ride-hailing start-up. It’s the biggest tech unicorn in the world, with a valuation of $69 billion. Not long ago Uber seemed invincible. Now it’s