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Dan Kottke: Silicon Valley was a nerd-driven culture, and the engineers were the priesthood. John Battelle: It was a culture of hardware hackers and software writers, who were generally older, midthirties to fifty, generally bearded, generally grimy, super fucking smart—what we would call on the spectrum now, but back then there wasn’t a term for it—generally that was the heart of the Valley culture.