Some archetypes are really too comfortably familiar to question. The Silicon Valley college dropout, for instance, a character trotted out every cycle to prove that the tech business is the embodiment of the American dream, that anyone can make it. The San Francisco Chronicle's take on the subject is perfectly serviceable, if tired: entrepreneurs such as Aaron Swartz of Reddit and Evan Williams of Obvious are following in the footsteps of tech industry legends who never completed college. "These dropouts barely raise an eyebrow in high-tech circles, where their worth is measured in real-world smarts, not Ivy-League degrees." Except the Chronicle misses the story, which is not the attitude of the tech industry toward Ivy-Leaguers, but vice versa. Graduates of Yale and Harvard used, a couple of decades ago, to leave Silicon Valley to the geeks and the misfits. Now, at least in boomtimes, they eschew investment banking, show up with their U-Hauls, and that barely raises an eyebrow.