📝 How Silicon Valley Knows Its People One of Silicon Valley’s great talents is turning early belief into consensus. Belief is private conviction. When you believe in someone, you can invest something based on that belief. Time, attention, access, reputation, and, of course, money. Affiliation is what makes those investments legible to everyone else. What changes as people read all these signals is status. It is a well-known trope that VCs want to be non-consensus and right about companies…