If I had $1 million for every time a founder told me "It's impossible to raise funding if you're not a twenty-something dude," I could lead their Series A round. The same bias applies to hiring. The ideal resume shouldn't be much longer than "Dropped out of Prestigious University." This obsession with youth, reports The New Republic, has turned Silicon Valley into "one of the most ageist places in America":

On March 6th, Twitter co-founder and Silicon Valley nice guy Biz Stone sent me a very sad email.

Same as it ever was, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. In 1999, at the peak of the boom: "Startups turned warehouses into offices. Venture capitalists poured money into companies with no earnings. Chronicle reporters wrung their hands about the disappearing soul of the Mission."

By 2014, wearing a Google Glass on your face has become only slightly less stigmatized than a giant swastika or swath of acne. But if face computers die, Google's rep will take a hit, too: so the company just put out another try-hard list of antisocial propaganda.

So, it's settled: Silicon Valley has the worst roadside billboards in the Western Hemisphere. [Photo via Sara Mauskopf]

Let's put it this way: long-ago-successful venture capitalist Jason Calacanis isn't the absolute smartest man in the business. Otherwise, he probably wouldn't obviously post anonymously to Secret after the covert app rejected a slot on his podcast.

This week, we learned Microsoft has been able to read anyone's Hotmail inbox, if it so pleases. But what about Google? According to TechCrunch founder and friendly VC giant Mike Arrington, his Gmail account was rifled through just the same.

Before I left for a trip to San Francisco earlier this month, I challenged myself (read: was forced by a boss) to find a startup I like. The assumption being that, surely, if I work at Valleywag, I must hate technology. There are a lot of bad actors in the business, sure, but Zack Shapiro of Luna isn't one.

Recode reports a Twitter engineer, Sara Haider, is ditching the company for Secret, the secret-sharing phenom app. This is great news for the latter, bad news for the former, and lovely news for anyone excited to share more anonymous gems.

Philanthropy today: Larry Page, the Google co-founder with $32 billion and little record of altruism, says he'd prefer another tech billionaire inherit his estate instead of leaving it to charity.

Not every programmer who comes out West panning for digital gold hits it rich. But the bottom rung of Startupland can be a fun if you find the right benefactor, reports Re/Code.

Airbnb is about to close a round of funding that will value the company at $10 billion, reports the Wall Street Journal. That's four times as much as the company was valued in 2012, when it raised $200 million. This time, the valedictorian of the sharing economy is raising between $400 million and $500 million led by private equity group TPG.

Last December, exquisitely timed for the Black Friday shopping orgasm, CBS aired a very long, very serious commercial for Amazon and its pipe dream delivery drone. Only a few months later, it's trying to play the skeptic.

The last we heard from the T-Swah/Evan Spiegel kissy-cootie rumor mill, the two ended shortly after the the former stood the latter up at the Rose Bowl. But (paper) tabloid rags like this week's OK! are still very into it.

What's written in Secret is having trouble staying secret. Earlier this week, comments made on the anonymous app were the catalyst for an implosion at GitHub. Now Facebook exec Andrew "Boz" Bosworth is publicly defending himself against criticism from a nameless tweety bird icon.

When Edward Snowden revealed the NSA was wiretapping basically every mainstream tech company in the United States, Silicon Valley cried plead innocence—and ignorance. But according to the agency's top attorney, that was a lie.

Facebook pulled the best practical joke of the internet age: the company convinced countless celebrities, bands, and "brands" that its service was the best way to reach people with eyeballs and money. Maybe it is! But now that companies have taken the bait, Facebook is holding the whole operation hostage.

Facebook released new models of its West campus expansion in Menlo Park to Business Insider. The 22-acre complex was designed by Frank Gehry, but altered after Facebook asked to make the plans "more anonymous" to better reflect "the culture of Facebook."

At the Bitcoin swap meet in SoMa, delusions are also for sale. One enthusiast shows off an app called Lambo Parity, "which tracks what percentage of a Lamborghini one Bitcoin can buy;" a 52-year-old bookkeeper thinks Bitcoin will "help fund her retirement."