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Silicon Valley is full of wealthy men who think they’re victims, says Nick Clegg


Former Lib Dem leader and Meta strategist writes in new book that power in tech capital is interlaced with ‘self pity’

The former leader of the Liberal Democrats makes the claim in a new book chronicling his three careers as an MEP in Brussels, an MP and deputy prime minister in Westminster and as a communications and public policy strategist in San Francisco. In an interview with the Guardian, Clegg heaped praise on his former boss, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and chief executive of Meta, but was scathing of the culture fostered in the tech capital of the world where he said wealth and power was interlaced with “self pity”. Clegg has returned to London, having quit his job in the US in January, before a shift in political attitude across Silicon Valley where tech billionaires including Zuckerberg, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Apple’s Tim Cook began engineering proximity to Donald Trump.

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