Silicon Valley's New Trend: Gifting Handmade Crafts to Signal Taste

A new Silicon Valley trend has founders exchanging beautifully crafted gifts, often made by others and unrelated to their own products, purely to signal how much they value "craft." Critics call it a performative status gesture.

2026-10-03 ~ 2026-10-03 · 2 related posts

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