Tech is not the underdog anymore. It is the dominant global industry and the central cultural force of our time, as @lessin has pointed out. To work in tech today, in the broad macro sense, is no longer inherently rebellious. It is often the act of someone joining the societally dominant consensus. Within tech, of course, there are still relative Davids and Goliaths. Seed-stage startups, Fund 1 VCs, boutique law firms, and upstart service providers are still the pirates. Big Tech, Big VC, Big Law, Big Anything are the navy. So if you work at Google, Sequoia, or Cooley, you are working in the dominant industry in society at the *macro* level, and at a dominant, safe institution at the *micro* level. That is two layers of establishment safety! And yet many people in Big Tech and Big VC still narrate themselves as rebels. As entrepreneurs. They feel misunderstood by the media, by Washington, by the system. But this is mostly self-flattering mythology. I will say that, as ever, it is more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy...