I'm not sure that's true, at least not in this case. Andy is an actual geek. He's just also an asshole. Being a geek doesn't stop you from being an asshole.
> For a very brief period, and then when the really big money started rolling in, all the personalities that used to flock to wall street became programmers.
> The Silicon Valley of the 90s was completely different to the thing it is now here.
