Why Silicon Valley (and the San Francisco Bay Area) is just like Hollywood:
- Aspiring talent travels from all over the world to try and make it here
- There are a lot of dud actors/entrepreneurs who end up working second jobs to pay the bills
- Women get judged more by their appearance than their abilities
- You get typecast to certain roles (e.g. hacker, hustler, hipster)
- Making a genre transition is hard (e.g. action to drama, consumer to enterprise web)
- Everybody knows everybody
- Some people are just known for being known (rather than what they do or make!)
- Directors aka VCs/angels pull the purse strings
- The power typically lies with middle-aged, straight, white men
- You go to casting sessions (pitches) in hope of your big break
- Only a handful of people truly succeed…
Kate Kendall 