Silicon Valley is losing its luster, at least among elite opinion-makers. An increasing number of critiques have been mounted in publications as diverse as The New Republic, The Weekly Standard, and Wired (to name only a few) based on charges of sexism, conspicuous consumption, inequality, and an attitude toward government and social problems ranging from naivete to disdain. Reports of an entrepreneur trying to teach a homeless man to code and, most recently, of one ranting publicly against the homeless haven’t helped. Perhaps most damning to entrepreneurs, inclined to pride themselves on what they produce, is the charge that many of the products Silicon Valley has been churning out are trivial.