What do you do when your startup mixer has been an internet punchline for an entire week? Release a "video recap" of the night's event, of course. Game-changer. Innovate.

Silicon Valley must now be trying to make you hate it. There's no other explanation for the "Startup and Tech Mixer," an assemblage of 2,500 San Francisco techies who sipped cocktails, networked, rode a mechanical bull, and produced some of the most nightmarishly obnoxious quotes I've ever read.