How We Got From Wall Street’s Big Swinging Dicks to Silicon Valley’s Big Swinging Brains

The tech entrepreneur has replaced the bond broker, but the swagger is still there

Andrew Marantz
OneZero
Published in
6 min readOct 22, 2019

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Illustration: Jordan Speer

InIn Liar’s Poker, his 1989 Wall Street memoir, Michael Lewis described a newly ascendant, egregiously conceited type of alpha-male bond broker. This type had a name: they called…

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Andrew Marantz
OneZero

New Yorker writer, author of the new book Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, & the Hijacking of the American Conversation. https://amzn.to/2p6BfIZ