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The Rise And Fall of the "Tech Bro" | How Money Works
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- How Money Works
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- Jul 6, 2026
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- 935
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The Rise And Fall of the "Tech Bro" šRemove your personal information from the web at https://joindeleteme.com/HMW and use code HMW for 20% off DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com š Sign up for our FREE newsletter! - https://www.compoundeddaily.com/ Books we recommend - https://howmoneyworkslibrary.com/ My Other Channel: @HowHistoryWorks Edited By: Svibe Multimedia Studio Music Courtesy of: Epidemic Sound Select Footage Courtesy of: Getty Images š© Business Inquiries ā”ļø [email protected] Sign up for our newsletter https://compoundeddaily.com š All materials in these videos are for educational purposes only and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. This video does not provide investment or financial advice of any kind. #tech #business #career Before the year 2000, if you wanted to make a lot of money in a predictable career you needed a nice suit and an important looking business card. Your options where finance, medicine, law or senior company management if you were lucky. But thenā¦ just a few years later at around about the same time as those people in their fancy suits were blowing up the global economy a new breed of millionaire was entering the mainstream. They replaced the puffer vests and Bloomberg terminals with flip flops and vim terminalsā¦ Tech broās worked fewer hours, had better perks and in many cases made better money than their peers in more traditional high-income rolesā¦ Whatās more is that people didnāt hate themā¦ Executives, bankers and their fancy lawyers were rightfully blamed for enriching themselves by leeching off a broken system that cost people their homes, their jobs, and their futuresā¦ Meanwhile people loved the idea of hacky sack playing nerds making millions by actā¦