Katherine Boyle

Google was really the kind of, they encouraged it.

They were sort of bring your whole self to work.

It's like we have laundry here and we have free gyms, all sorts of free perks for you to stay here constantly and work.

But it was really like a bring your whole self to work kind of identity thing.

And a lot of sort of the kind of, I think, kind of radical activism we're seeing on campuses now, but really have seen for like the last 10 years, got imported into Silicon Valley with Facebook, with Google, and with these sort of what we call app companies, sort of the kind of Web 2.0, you know, the big companies of the last generation.

Twitter, yeah.

The people who were working there weren't sort of the...

I mean, yes, they had sort of the cracked engineers, right?

But then you also had sort of this keyboard class, this sort of keyboard warrior, where it was really, really sexy to work in tech.

It became sort of the sexy dominant thing coming out of these sort of prestigious schools.

And I think they brought

a lot of the liberal trends, liberal fads into the companies that looked very different than what tech was in the 70s and the 80s and the 90s.

Before, it was these hardware engineers, these guys who just really wanted to build things.

Then when you get into post-internet and the app culture, it became something totally different.

At the same time, what was also happening in Silicon Valley is, you know, Silicon Valley is about 40 minutes south of San Francisco.

So the kind of hubs for Facebook and different places and Google, they're down in what's known as the South Bay.

But San Francisco is, you know, it really wasn't a tech city until like 2009, 2010.

Twitter headquartered itself.

in San Francisco in 2009.

And you saw a lot of tech workers sort of moving to the city.