It always bugs me when “Silicon Valley” is written about as some kind of monolith.

Do all the sincere, hard-working, risk-taking startups deserve to be painted by the same brush as Facebook?

Yes actually, cause those startups are trying to either become a large company or be bought by one. And talent moves decently well between the two kinds of companies.

This reminds me of when someone outside California asks what city someone is from and they say Palo Alto or Sunnyvale. No, that's SF.