Silicon Valley

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Silicon Valley
“Silicon Valley is cucked beyond measure. This guy makes other men scan this qr code so they can read his…” (15 December 2024)
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Portal	The Frontier
Posts	176
Retweets	240
Likes	3,099
First post	10 March 2018
Latest post	4 March 2026
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Silicon Valley, with its venture capitalists and accelerators, appears in 176 posts, peaking at 63 in 2022 as he forecast a VC winter. GritCult treats the Valley as a monoculture: rich, clever and easily herded. He mocks its ideas and its morals while working alongside its money.

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His most retweeted post on the subject is a list he calls "The midwit diet", which files "Techno garbage blogs from VCs" and "Everyone living in tech and Silicon Valley" alongside TED talks and Sapiens ^[1]. He posted it in 2022 and again in 2023. The underlying charge is conformity. As early as 2018 he explained "why silicon valley has group think" through in-groups that share abstractions until they reach the same conclusions ^[2], and in 2022 he accused it of using deep tech, hard tech and web3 "to obfuscate and create an insider language to stay hip n trendy." ^[3] Even its philosophy is suspect: he jokes that the Valley competes "on whos life is the most examined" and has "gamified stoicism and meditation" ^[4].

Venture capital gets the harshest treatment. In 2022 he predicted that trendy "venture capital grifts are gonna die in the upcoming VC winter" ^[5], called the profession a scam and accused crypto investors of dumping on retail. The objection is partly ideological: web3, he argued, was "being infiltrated by VCs who just want to impose the old order onto a new revenue stream" ^[6], which is why he called himself crypto rather than web3. It is moral too. He posts about godless VCs, polyamorous AI people and Valley orgies, and describes the scene as the "Atheist tech bro vibe that crypto was built to escape." ^[7]

Yet he is no outsider. Posts about pitching VCs, raising capital and cold emailing crypto funds sit beside the mockery, and in 2024 he wrote that he was applying to Y Combinator again after three earlier attempts, glad of the chance to see his "own previous applications" ^[8]. His account of the Valley's origins is unsentimental: luck, and a rare alignment of tech, military and education, which leaves him wondering where the next one will be. Earlier he credited its rise to the absence of non-compete rules and light regulation, and in 2021 he declared that it was already being decentralised, with Twitter group chats taking its place.

Recurring themes

• the midwit diet
• groupthink and insider jargon
• the VC winter and the web3 split
• godless tech-bro morals
• luck and light regulation as the Valley's origin
• courting the money he mocks

Notable post

The most retweeted GritCult post on the subject, with 82 retweets:

Selected posts

The 120 most retweeted of 176 posts in the archive about Silicon Valley. Select a column heading to sort.

Date	Retweets	Likes	Post	Media	Source
15 October 2022	82	849	TED talks. Sapiens. Malcolm glad well and 10000hours rule. Thinking fast and slow. Techno garbage blogs from VCs. Everyone living in tech and Silicon Valley. The Big Bang theory. Rick and morty. Twitter navalisms. Joe rogan. Tim ferris. Sam Harris. Ben Shapiro The midwit diet.		View
15 August 2022	40	385	TED talks. Sapiens. Malcolm glad well and 10000hours rule. Thinking fast and slow. Techno garbage blogs from VCs. Everyone living in tech and Silicon Valley. The Big Bang theory. Rick and morty. Twitter navalisms. Joe rogan. Tim ferris. Sam Harris. Ben Shapiro The midwit diet.		View
13 September 2022	7	37	I just know wherever there is a crypto event. There’s likely a crypto Silicon Valley type orgy or group sex event. Most people in crypto are sick in the head.		View
29 August 2023	5	59	TED talks. Sapiens. Malcolm glad well and 10000hours rule. Thinking fast and slow. Techno garbage blogs from VCs. Everyone living in tech and Silicon Valley. The Big Bang theory. Rick and morty. Twitter navalisms. Joe rogan. Tim ferris. Sam Harris. Ben Shapiro The midwit diet.		View
22 September 2021	5	33	The VCs game rn		View
13 August 2022	5	33	What godless VCs look like. Do you really want these types of people trying to guide society.		View
21 May 2022	5	14	All these new hip and trendy gen z tik tok venture capital grifts are gonna die in the upcoming VC winter. If you have a background in VC either lock down shit and prepare for trenche warfare or start updating your cv.		View
21 February 2025	4	61	VCs are now investing in creators they own distribution. Low CAC. High LTV. sell multiple products, vertically & horizontally. have their own moat. imagine owning 10% of everything Mr Beast made. would be a better trade than 99% of startups might do seedround for GRITCULT		View
25 April 2024	4	34	Memecoins have more utility than 99% of the things that are VC backed or “real builders” Money is fake and printed The government rules you without your consent. You pay taxes to make foreign kids hooked on hormones. They fund pointless wars Get off ur high horse. Retardio		View
20 September 2024	4	30	very interesting interview from 2009 with palantir ceo "terrorists are entrepreneurs. that are very good at what they do, theyre usually the most interesting most talented people of their society" "silicon valley wins because it puts ideas before money"		View
10 August 2018	4	20	siri, what did peter theil, a major player in big tech, major in at standford? siri : philosophy there is plenty of philosophy in silicon valley, all trying to compete on whos life is the most examined they even gamified stoicism and meditation		View
22 July 2021	4	10	📢Working with a VC firm Looking for: - Very early stage start ups. - bonus points the earlier it is - bonus points if it’s in crypto - bonus points it it’s in DeFi Dm me. With link to deck. My team will likely look at the deck and if it’s good enough I’ll arrange a call.		View
1 September 2018	4	8	COME ONE AND ALL COME AND SEE INTELLECTUAL YET IDIOT "BLOGGER" @anildash GET PWNED IN THIS THREAD DISPLAYS HIS LACK OF KNOWLEDGE ON BIOLOGY COME AND SEE SILICON VALLEY HYPOCRISY AND BIAS JUDGE FOR YOURSELF I HOLD DECORUM CALL NO NAMES AND PROVIDE SOURCES FOR ALL MY CLAIMS		View
14 September 2022	3	43	ANOTHER L FOR VCs		View
1 May 2022	3	30	Maximum pain incoming soon. “Web3” folks going to change their bios to VC again		View
15 April 2022	3	8	elon musk could be a vampire and silicon valley tech bros would be like: "drink me daddy elon san, i wuv driving ur ugly tesla"		View
26 March 2023	2	89	There are a lot of crazy Silicon Valley rumours of this guy.		View
5 December 2018	2	65	Im about to finish university. Here is a life hack for you : I've spent more time reading VC and crypto blogs than in lectures this year 😂🤣		View
17 August 2022	2	22	Silicon Valley didn’t have enough jargon so now they’re using deep tech and hard tech and web3 to obfuscate and create an insider language to stay hip n trendy.		View
31 August 2022	2	16	4. Non Tech Related Companies Have Joined Tech Companies And VCs In Making Significant Investments In The Metaverse: While Facebook remains the most prominent company to go all in on the metaverse, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Alphabet, etc. are also making sizable bets in the space.		View
22 August 2022	2	12	Crypto VCs down bad		View
31 August 2018	2	11	memetic drift of language can also facilitate this notion of abstraction distance your ingroup can have its own similarities in abstractions so you come to similar conclusions ergo group think but to common plebs you have abstract distance [why silicon valley has group think]		View
7 January 2021	2	11	Why? Silicon Valley as we speak is being decentralised lol. Twitter group chats are replacing it.		View
21 August 2023	2	10	thanks to friend tech VCs will start frothing at social fi apps again		View
25 January 2022	2	7	From my experience with VCs this seems very believable.		View
14 November 2019	2	3	I hear the VC space in India is like the Wild West. Is this true?		View
15 December 2024	1	71	Silicon Valley is cucked beyond measure. This guy makes other men scan this qr code so they can read his spreadsheet or appropriate use before they blow her back out.		View
27 October 2020	1	47	Ah yes Silicon Valley.... I just chew Nicotine gum. Sinple.		View
12 July 2021	1	43	i have the emails of 30,000 VCs im currently in the process of raising capital for 3-5 companies. would you like their emails?		View
3 April 2023	1	23	silicon valley doubled the number of homeless people from 2011 to 2021 hows that for a hockey stick		View
24 April 2024	1	19	Almost every vc I talk to has insane fomo over meme coins.		View
2 April 2023	1	18	was sbf talking about silicon valley bank?		View
18 November 2018	1	17	Crypto and VC twitter has been very rewarding to me. My tweets have found home in the far flung autistic corners of the shadowy depths of the world. Whereas most my friends even those intelligent philosophy types balk at further development of some of my notions.		View
31 August 2022	1	17	VC’s including Andreesen Horowitz, Paradigm, Coatue, and Softbank are just a few of the VCs that have poured billions into metaverse projects from Open Sea to Sandbox to Yuga Labs/Bored Ape Yacht Club.		View
11 July 2022	1	15	Bull market strategy is raising vc money. Then becoming a web3 vc to front run retail.		View
18 August 2020	1	14	This will affect house prices and land price, particularly in San Francisco, where a large portion Venture Capital went direct to landlords. House prices will fall and we will see alot more people travelling and working, like @tferriss predicted.		View
18 June 2022	1	13	Most vc funds went to land lords in San Francisco. Not sure why they love the cult of the office so much. Maybe trust the people you invest in.		View
15 June 2022	1	12	Please don’t intro me to to entitled VCs like this.		View
6 February 2022	1	11	They were really singing and meditating ina twitter space after arguing about shit. This has some Silicon Valley vc bro energy. This is why so many people think web3 people are out of touch. Atheist tech bro vibe that crypto was built to escape.		View
16 August 2023	1	11	the vc market is recovering now and is pretty bullish but i dont think you guys realise how blackpilled some VCs were when the silicon valley bank shit happened, i was in some meetings during that time, and shit was fucking insane. totally overblown reactions imo,		View
30 August 2021	1	10	my youtube recommendations Ycombinator for start ups & bigguccisosa chief keef		View
8 January 2022	1	10	this is why i say i am crypto not web3 web 3 is being infiltrated by VCs who just want to impose the old order onto a new revenue stream... crypto is highly ideological as a technology.		View
2 March 2021	1	9	THE BEST VCs FOLLOW ME THE ONES THAT DONT ARE SHIT		View
24 July 2021	1	9	I have a collection of roughly 500 templates for pretty much everything. Contracts to reports. To venture capital tables. I wanna partner with someone who also has a huge bunch of templates and offer this maybe idk.		View
14 August 2022	1	9	Web 2 circle jerk. Retail get free shit from vcs Web 3 circle jerk. Retail get dumped by VCs		View
17 August 2021	1	8	I’ve followed the rise of DAOs over 4 years We r early. N some DAOs already outperformed VCs.		View
5 October 2023	1	8	ftx, luna, and silicon valley bank round tripped alot of people, even solana losing alot of value, peoples portfolios probably down to 1/10th of what it was at peak. mentally this would fuck with you, ALOT. from thinking your gods chosen, to thinking you're cursed.		View
19 November 2018	1	7	This was in 2016/17 when most were screaming trump was too extreme. Theil went with contrarian. His takes are scary good. League of his own. When most of high IQ silicon valley was in its own echo chamber. Again the system and checks of power are designed to slow gears.		View
25 July 2022	1	7	Cheap cheap money of a bull run from 2008 until 2022. Coming to an end. That vc environment is dead.		View
23 July 2023	1	7	I like this guy. But this is a horrible take. Wants to use the government to ban technology and he works in VC. I agree it needs a solution but not outright banning which is myopic and one of the biggest problems of European tech.		View
29 October 2018	1	6	code switching : language codes: how a language is spoken is important, rhythm, timing, phrase, accents and hidden meanings. e.g. : silicon valley vs hipster codes words => short hand why : brains : specialise & optimise		View
17 April 2021	1	6	which VCs think america is gonna disintegrate?		View
16 May 2021	1	6	Fifth Highest-Paid TikTok Creator Launches Venture Capital Fund		View
23 April 2022	1	5	vc is a scam not a profession to be proud of		View
23 July 2021	1	4	Using this VC dilution scenario analyser for some of my clients I am working with. reply under this if you would like the template		View
21 January 2022	1	4	Jack hates web 3 and VCs. He’s a btc maxi. A16z is heavy in the web3 space.		View
24 July 2021	1	3	@RyanSAdams Talk to multiple crypto CEOs. Got told a vc I know wants my help find projects to invest in.		View
17 July 2022	1	3	Crypto vcs be like “gibs me dat so I dump on retail”		View
25 September 2022	1	3	they try too hard to sound smart, alot of shit talking and buzzwords, all an effort to play the casino that is current VC rn, im glad itll come to an end in a recession.		View
10 April 2023	1	3	is y combinator still worth it?		View
17 June 2018	1	1	they say a AI development winter is coming (hanson) silicon valley fracturing - will reduce hub network effect increase in regulation and patent protection in cyberspace- stifles innovation		View
9 August 2018	1	1	IYI publication, @spectator first by @MissDiagnosis, researched into her funding and ties by Israeli government, most "articles" are mouth pieces, arguments from identity now by @laraprendergast not as bad, but shouldve come at this topic via the Silicon valley Spartans route		View
1 September 2018	1	1	yehp anil - typical silicon valley liberal - they all reek of group think and ideology she is right wing - religious too - id say something resembling a high tory see her posts she is mocking IQ because high IQ people believe less in god and other memes		View
21 March 2020	1	1	silicon valley bros are all gonna castrate themselves as life extension		View
17 March 2024	0	46	If you make enough money this cycle. You will do a Pokemon evolve into a crypto VC next cycle.		View
31 August 2022	0	28	I’m starting a vc fund. Found my main LPs and partners. Going to start scouting for decks soon.		View
16 February 2024	0	28	its crazy how when the price goes up the VCs start chasing YOU		View
3 April 2024	0	27	Steve jobs may have been lucky to have been raised in Silicon Valley But Silicon Valley itself was an amalgamation of luck and a syzygy of aligning stars of various industries. Tech, military and education. For my future kids what’s the next Silicon Valley to raise kids?		View
11 May 2023	0	26	maybe its just me, but find it worrying when crypto VCs talk more about AI than they have crypto		View
18 July 2023	0	20	Gonna go to crypto events and pretend to be a VC to get free drinks.		View
27 January 2023	0	19	from being on here for years, this is highly true imo or people are being puppeted by people who are under government affiliations but unaware to said poster. we all saw last year how anti "seed oil" propaganda was actually via a VC backed fake meat company MANY such cases		View
14 August 2022	0	18	Realising more and more that raising capital for start ups is just finding the trending meta and front running the VCs.		View
22 February 2024	0	18	applying to y combinator again, having done so 3 times previously, it is great in the sense that i can access and see my own previous applications. seeing myself in time, navigating the idea maze is fascinating, also seeing the progress per each application helps alot too.		View
31 October 2020	0	17	Year and a half later. Mass exodus from Silicon Valley. Rent in Sam Francisco drop by 50% In some places.		View
1 April 2023	0	17	VCs in a bear market be like "wen traction"		View
26 July 2023	0	17	need crypto VCs that actually use crypto and gaming VCs that actually game		View
11 October 2021	0	14	Panel of investors and VCs predict a bear market next year		View
1 July 2022	0	14	Talking with a metaverse company to join them. About to get into hyper growth stage. Massive vc funds. But Not sure if I believe in this Vision of a metaverse.		View
28 November 2021	0	13	Twitter influencers are the new VCs.		View
22 July 2021	0	12	Just talked to a Korean vc for @meta_spore Was lit. Might move there. I think Asia is a friendlier market to crypto but lack of financial institutions creates a weird ecosystem.		View
8 February 2022	0	12	They kicked that white vc lady off the stage lmfaooo I’m dead		View
9 February 2022	0	12	me pitching idea:"yes ok we basically have a paid group on discord where ppl only get in via tokens that anyone can mint, and we offer member discounts and build nothing and have parties" VC:"whats so good about this idea" me:"we call it a decentralised autonomous organisation"		View
20 July 2023	0	12	I might live stream cold emailing crypto VCs.		View
22 January 2022	0	11	“Hi guys I quit my job as a VC to work in web3”. Was really the top.		View
19 May 2022	0	11	For seed. Met them all in person via talks or networking. Or got warm intros from ppl I met in person at these events. It was easier when the VC was drunk and I just spammed their telegram day after		View
5 August 2022	0	11	What exactly is the “thought crime” here? Just looks like a turbo normie vc fest lol		View
12 February 2019	0	10	SV and VC are a bubble. No offense to anyone who works in that bubble. Me responding to soulja boy hate : Turn Ur swag on bro.		View
8 September 2022	0	10	Well boot strapping is noble and VCs are evil sure… I get it. But reality is cash is king and you gotta be able to raise and leverage the value add. Its too competitive. Most die from competing forces. Everything gotta gave ROI incl. your time		View
25 September 2022	0	10	bruh seriously? i didnt even say shit i hope nothing but cursed ill will, bad luck, malnutrition and encrusted boils all over her face on her and her bloodline, for this indiscriminate slight. VCs have gone too far.		View
4 January 2021	0	9	in a bubble or in a gold rush, two types of businesses make the most money real estate, and "shovel & pick" businesses. start up culture was a gold rush, landlords and firms who enabled start ups made most money (marketing/VC)		View
20 April 2022	0	9	I made this exact argument to so many VCs. This is very very similar to my experience		View
15 May 2022	0	9	I think this century will show more innovations from China than from Silicon Valley. Tik tok just the start. As was the case in a vast part of history.		View
28 January 2023	0	9	Unfilled demand by US startups reached $42.8 billion in Q4 2022. Put another way, startups demanded more than twice as much capital as VCs supplied.		View
4 March 2025	0	9	@Dynamo_Patrick got a vc friend, he told me all the big VC backed founders have already quiet quit and half ass it cos of token unlocks and only stay on due to contracts or for show		View
23 July 2020	0	8	High demand. Limited supply. Law makers restricted new builds. Alot of the money in VC went to land lords. This lead to increased rent costs, which lead to more people made homeless and increasing income inequality. And lack of wanting to deal with homelessness		View
25 September 2020	0	8	liberals or rather people who believe they are on the right side of "history" (which is everyone lol) (history is fake too) are dangerous,due to lack of moral control(stops) silicon valley = liberal silicon valley = enslaved people via dopamine addiction		View
17 March 2021	0	8	how do i start my own VC fund?		View
16 August 2022	0	8	Read somewhere that the main reason why Neumann raised money again is because his style is highly suited to vc. Where big swinging bets traits are highly selected for and optimised for. Makes a lot of sense from my experience. The bigger the idea. The better the pitch.		View
22 August 2022	0	8	Web3 VCs advocating for censorship. Amazing.		View
13 September 2022	0	8	77th, prediction for 2030 government housing is partly owned by venture capital public housing will come back in a major way. most houses being built will be in cities, while countrysides will start being drained and depopulated.		View
17 September 2022	0	8	The founder of bolt has a really good book on fundraising. This is part of his play. Being in the news is good marketing and will help him raise at a higher rate. A lot of money in vc goes to marketing and user acquisition. Being newsworthy. Helps you. A lot.		View
8 October 2022	0	8	@mkobach Venture capital. Innovation. Business.		View
3 October 2018	0	7	People love productivity tend to love insights. Silicon valley types. Insight is a shortcut to an idea-plane.		View
8 October 2018	0	7	Zoo safaris. But instead of animals you have NPC wageslaves in cubicles. A quest despair fills the person reading this as they realise it is a good topic for a dystopian novel about silicon valley mass corporatism feudalism. Already there are hood tours for urbanites.		View
23 November 2021	0	7	One of my suspicions is how much VC they’re spending on parties and marketing.		View
31 October 2020	0	6	Corona. Kanye and Silicon Valley. 2020. A year of predictions		View
31 January 2021	0	6	Having multiple projects is much more like a VC firm than a person who is all in on one project		View
21 May 2022	0	6	The counter argument is that many haven’t started feeling it yet. I know lots of VC still be deployed. But all tech giants preparing for a freeze out. Also rates and macro environment is very very significant		View
11 July 2022	0	6	VCs 🤝 indian dev with 6 projects		View
26 March 2023	0	6	@Owen_Roe @Yrcncld Yes. Silicon Valley orgy parties		View
30 April 2023	0	6	Had a meeting with a vc who did this. Won’t name names. But was a big Oof moment when we did our due diligence.		View
23 November 2023	0	6	Only 10% of VCs want an equity only deal in crypto. Rest either want token only or look for both.		View
2 June 2020	0	5	@zck @BryceWeiner Must be hard being a VC 😂		View
21 May 2022	0	5	Why will there be a VC winter. Appetite for risk is gonna go way down. It’s gonna be harder for exits. LPs gonna want more stable returns. General beta performance of market is gonna shift downwards. User acquisition models are flawed freemium models and ad block killing it.		View
28 June 2022	0	5	two interesting examples of this. covid, money printing rent and airbnb prices went up or demand went higher, especially in big cities, DESPITE remote work which is now dying also Silicon Valley VC money made landlords rich		View
12 July 2022	0	5	Most companies backed by VCs fail because they have no working profit model.		View
8 September 2022	0	5	The future of VC is owning social media verticals. Can’t advertise your own product? Your capital allocation won’t be best. And infrastructure has been built to make this quicker and quicker. Trend speed is accelerating		View
27 April 2023	0	5	yeah i think its solely a matter of time tbh more and more funding is going into web3 gaming, one of the fastest growing VC spots also more and more gamers are being onboarded slowly, especially as UI/UX improves for wallets and so on		View
16 April 2024	0	5	@raihan_ Pretty much sums up every VCs complaint.		View
5 February 2022	0	4	Hey guys since it’s doxx day here is me while I was working at mega corp google and Facebook. Now I am helping VCs in web3. Please buy my simpdao NFTs. Discord is a utility actually.		View

History

GritCult first posted about Silicon Valley on 10 March 2018, and most recently on 4 March 2026. Across the archive the subject comes up 176 times, most often in 2022 (63 posts).

See also

The Frontier portal

References

1. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (15 October 2022). Techno garbage blogs from VCs. Everyone living in tech and Silicon Valley... The midwit diet. X.
2. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (31 August 2018). why silicon valley has group think. X.
3. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (17 August 2022). using deep tech and hard tech and web3 to obfuscate and create an insider language to stay hip n trendy. X.
4. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (10 August 2018). there is plenty of philosophy in silicon valley, all trying to compete on whos life is the most examined... they even gamified stoicism and meditation. X.
5. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (21 May 2022). All these new hip and trendy gen z tik tok venture capital grifts are gonna die in the upcoming VC winter. X.
6. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (8 January 2022). web 3 is being infiltrated by VCs who just want to impose the old order onto a new revenue stream. X.
7. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (6 February 2022). This has some Silicon Valley vc bro energy... Atheist tech bro vibe that crypto was built to escape. X.
8. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (22 February 2024). applying to y combinator again, having done so 3 times previously, it is great in the sense that i can access and see my own previous applications. X.

External links

• Posts about Silicon Valley by GRITCULT on X
• Silicon Valley on Wikipedia