Silicon Valley has no average people: Berkeley PhDs at Anthropic, state-school founders at $50M ARR
jia_seed · x · 2026-09-26
A wry observation that the "average person" in Silicon Valley isn't average at all: a seemingly ordinary person may have a Berkeley PhD and research at Anthropic, while a nerdy guy from a state school casually runs a $50M ARR business — a snapshot of the valley's talent density and wealth creation pace.
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