Original Article on Gawker

Motivations are supposed to be pure in Silicon Valley. Facebook, for example, was developed to make the world a better place; its billions of dollars in revenue are just a happy accident. And when a Facebook scion eagerly promoted her titillating new reality show, she was roundly condemned as a terrible selloutby people who were themselves dying to sell out. Greed insists on disguises, and Northern California's robber-barons have long made a point of trying to elevate themselves above the non-value-adding Philistines back in New York. Their bodies are temples, their food is ethical, their non-business activities are numerous and sophisticated, even the way they viciously rip one another to pieces is, like, totally Zen. When Randi Zuckerberg...(read more)