Meaning of tech bro | Babel Free

Definitions

A hypermasculine man employed in the tech industry and stereotypically located in Silicon Valley.

derogatory, informal, neologism, sometimes

Examples

“Fort Mason, a renovated military post on the bay, has been nicknamed “Frat Mason” for the 20-something “tech bros” — tech company salespeople, marketing employees and start-up founders — who have moved into luxury apartments there and play bocce on the great lawn.”

““U.S.S. Callister” inverts this idea by having its tech-bro channel his resentment into fashioning his own personal matrix.”

“Are Tech Bros, as one Redditor claimed, members of a “hyper technocratic, libertarian…boys club”?”

“A term that once mocked a particular Bay Area cultural phenomenon has become an all-purpose epithet. In the process, it has lost whatever analytic value and rhetorical punch it once had. If tech bros are everywhere, then they are nowhere.”

“No, Virginia, the combination of Trump’s tax cuts and tariffs don’t help and, yes, when the AI investment bubble pops GDP growth will drop making the deficit/GDP ratio worse, unless you believe the tech bros hype about AI suddenly delivering universal nirvana.”

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