1. The most recent entrant in the Tech Bro Hall of Shame, Justin Keller, published an open letter to San Francisco’s political leaders complaining, “I shouldn’t have to see the pain, struggle, and despair of homeless people to and from my way to work every day.” Keller wrote that he was inspired to write his screed by three incidents with homeless people in San Francisco. Which terrifying encounter with a homeless person did not happen to Keller?

   1. A homeless person leaned on his parent’s car

   2. A homeless person slept overnight in the doorway to his parents’ Airbnb rental

   3. A homeless person came into a movie theater where Keller was on a date and took his shirt off

   4. A homeless person was yelling and screaming outside a restaurant where Keller was eating

2. Startup founder Peter Shih’s “10 Things I Hate About You: San Francisco Edition” post on Medium was so reviled that people put posters with his face on them on telephone poles around the city. What doesn’t Peter Shih hate about San Francisco?

   1. Start Up Guys (“There is more to life than who raised money from who and which startup got acquired by Google.”)

   2. Women (“Just because San Francisco has the worst Female to Male ratio in the known universe doesn’t give you the right to be a bitch all the time.”)

   3. Homeless People (“San Francisco has some of the craziest homeless people I have ever seen in my life.”)

   4. Taxi Drivers (“No wonder Uber is putting you out of work.”)

3. Incessant Tweeter, venture capitalist and Facebook board member Marc Andreessen incurred the wrath of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and the citizenry of India when he tweeted, “Anti-colonialism has been economically catastrophic for the Indian people for decades. Why stop now?” How many times did Andreessen post the same, five-tweet apology, the day after his ill-fated foray into defending colonialism?

   1. Once

   2. Twice

   3. Three times

   4. Four times

4. In early December, venture capitalist and Twitter gadfly Benedict Evans managed to enrage the entire city of San Francisco by bemoaning the city’s lack of the “riches of, you know, human civilisation”. What kind of establishment did Evans particularly bemoan the absence of?

   1. A city-block sized carpet shop

   2. A city-block sized vape store

   3. A city-block sized hardware store

   4. A city-block sized throw pillow store

5. Venture capitalist and Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham kicked off 2016 by defending which nearly universally decried social ill?

   1. Climate change

   2. The gender wage gap

   3. War

   4. Economic inequality

6. In 2013, startup founder Greg Gopman described San Francisco’s homeless as “the lower part of society” and “degenerates [who] gather like hyenas” and bemoaned the “burden and liability [of] having them so close to us”. After his reputation-rehabilitation project failed (he proposed housing the homeless in geodesic domes that a city official said reminded them of “a dog house”), Gopman embarked on the next stage of his life. Which movie did Gopman tell the Guardian was the model for his next adventure?

   1. Eat Pray Love

   2. Harry Potter

   3. Deliverance

   4. Fifty Shades of Grey

7. Airbnb founder and CEO Brian Chesky has had his fair share of struggles with government regulations. Which civil rights icon did Chesky invoke to justify his company’s righteous battle against local zoning laws?

   1. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

   2. Gandhi

   3. Rosa Parks

   4. Assata Shakur

8. Tinder founder Sean Rad told a journalist in November 2015 that “unbelievably”, he can be attracted to women “who my friends might think are ugly”. His face creased as he tried to remember that special word for a guy who gets “turned on by intellectual stuff”. What word did he find to express that very special feeling?

   1. Sodomy

   2. Sadism

   3. Socialism

   4. Podiatrist

Solutions

1:B, 2:D, 3:C, 4:A, 5:D, 6:A, 7:B, 8:A

Scores

1. 0 and above.

   Sorry, you didn't get any right. Have you heard of Silicon Valley?

2. 1 and above.

   Sorry, you only got one right. Have you heard of Silicon Valley?

3. 2 and above.

   Looks like most of these jaw-droppingly awful moments have passed you by. Lucky you!

4. 3 and above.

   Looks like most of these jaw-droppingly awful moments have passed you by. Luck you!

5. 4 and above.

   Not bad, you got half right. Do you work in tech, by any chance?

6. 5 and above.

   Well done, you got a high score. Do you work in Silicon Valley, by any chance?

7. 6 and above.

   Well done, you're a Tech Bro Hall of Shame pro! Do you work in Silicon Valley, by any chance?

8. 7 and above.

   Well done, you're a Tech Bro Hall of Shame pro! Are you Marc Andreessen, by any chance?

9. 8 and above.

   Well done, you got a perfect score! Are you Justin Keller, by any chance?