Jews in Silicon Valley

When people say that Silicon Valley is run by old white men, they’re wrong. It’s run by Jews.

Thats an exaggeration, but Jewish people are over-represented in technology, especially in the top jobs. Jews are only 2% of the population in the USA, but:

• Steve Ballmer
• Marc Benioff
• Larry Ellison
• Larry Page, Sergey Brin
• Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz
• Max Levchin

This list is just off the top of my head, by no means exhaustive. Jews tend to be a huge portion of the successful people in technology, way more than 2%. But they make up a huge number of successful technology founders.

Why?

Because Jews have the highest IQ. And technology companies need people with extremely high intelligence. The average Jewish American IQ is 113, Asian-Americans have 106. Latino Americans have 89 and African-Americans have 85. Is it a coincidence that the highest IQ groups are over-represented and the lowest IQ groups are under-represented?

On a side note, Jews have very high verbal IQ, but average spatial IQ. Verbal/logic skills are needed for persuading people to work with you, raise money etc (CEO type skills). Spatial skills help in engineering (CTO type skills). Asians have a high spatial IQ. That’s why you’ll see more Asians in engineering, and more whites in management.

The current mindset with diversity is all wrong. The diversity activists won’t ever be happy until each race is represented proportionally to the general population. Even then, I’m sure they won’t be satisfied, otherwise they’d have to find other work to do.

But if you look at the unfair distribution of intelligence, there isn’t any discrimination going on at all. There is already a shortage of good engineers, and if you have the skills tech companies won’t discriminate against you.

So the problem is not enough Blacks and Hispanics are studying computer science. In fact even at 15 years old (see 2012 PISA scores), there is a huge gap between Asians/Whites and Black/Hispanics. This is not the problem for the tech companies to fix. They’re meant to get the smartest people they can, otherwise their competitors will.

Even so, Zuckerberg is still voluntarily donating his money to help fix education and improve equality.

However no matter how much money they spend, they won’t fix the achievement gap between races. Education policy in the USA is a very low leverage business. Facebook can ship a new product to millions instantly, but policy changes take forever to implement. But more importantly, its a demographic thing. People have tried smaller class sizes, more money, and countless other things, for over 50 years to no avail. It’s insoluble, and everyone ignores the elephant in the room: heritability of intelligence.

William Shockley was the inventor of the transistor and the founder of Silicon Valley. He had controversial beliefs on race and heritability of IQ and was ostracized before he died. I believe he was correct. It’s time to bring those ideas back into the discussion in Silicon Valley.

You would think that with so many intelligent people in Silicon Valley, they would have figured this out by now.