...or just somebody who plays the SV networking game well enough to be in the room. Any number of Adam Neumanns and Sam Bankman-Fried-adjacent personality types could get through that door.
Counterculture? Do you think you have to be counterculture not to know who Paul Graham is? What the fuck lol. Ask anyone outside of your little bubble and they won't have a fucking clue.
Edit: The above was needlessly confrontational. I don't know you and it was uncalled for. I just fucking despise Silicon Valley.