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[...] Kaleil had just quit his high paying job at the prestigious Wall Street firm of Goldman Sachs. But he and Tom felt "ordinary" because they hadn't yet become millionaires at the age of twenty-eight. They had an idea they thought was the key to fame and fortune: they would establish a Web site …

[...] Kaleil had just quit his high paying job at the prestigious Wall Street firm of Goldman Sachs. But he and Tom felt "ordinary" because they hadn't yet become millionaires at the age of twenty-eight. They had an idea they thought was the key to fame and fortune: they would establish a Web site …

Not far away, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is building a $40 million-plus replica of the Japanese Katsura palace on 23 wooded acres. Presumably, he'll be parking his new Marchetti Italian jet fighter elsewhere - perhaps next to the aerobatic plane he just bought as an eighth-grade graduation gift for h…

[...] Workers and bosses? Those were twentieth-century phrases, according to the CEOs. They were outmoded, old-fashioned, irrelevant concepts. Their new mantra was: "We're all equal, we're all a team, we all work as owners of the company because we all have stock options. So unions are passé, since…

Aside from the simple geographical designation, Silicon Valley is the name for a psychological obsession found anyplace where people believe that instant fame and fortune can be gained through silicon chips and Web sites, or lotteries or stock-market trading. This dream nourishes itself on an addic…