Ideology serves as a strong motivating factor in Silicon Valley, and people tend to cluster into communities that share their beliefs, which facilitates groupthink.

“I think the truth is both of these things can exist at the same time. Um, but the group think is I do think it's an outcropping of this of this ideology like of course humans everywhere want to have an ide ideology and something to believe in. But I do think in Silicon Valley it's like heightened. A”