“Nerds run the world,” Clover Hope writes for GQ. “But with their notoriously horrid fashion choices, some dotcom entrepreneurs could use a style IQ boost. While their tech innovations deserve kudos, their outfits are one giant leap back for mankind. Here, we present the 15 worst offenders.”
15 Worst-Dressed Men Of Silicon Valley:
15. Chris Sacca, Founder and Principal of Lowercase Capital
14. Craig Newmark, Founder of Craigslist
13. Ron Conway, Early Investor in Google, PayPal, Facebook, Digg
12. Peter Chou, Co-Founder and CEO of HTC
11. Blake Krikorian, Co-Founder and Former CEO of Sling Media
10. Ben Huh, CEO of ICanHasCheezburger.com
9. Howard Stringer, Chairman, President and CEO of Sony Corp.
8. Seth Priebatsch, Founder and CEO of Smartphone app SCVNGR
7. Tom Anderson, Co-Founder of MySpace
6. Reid Hoffman, Co-Founder and Chairman of LinkedIn; Investor in Digg, Flickr
5. Dennis Crowley, Co-Founder and CEO of Foursquare; Co-Founder Of Dodgeball
4. Shantanu Narayen, President and CEO of Adobe Systems, Inc.
3. Bill Gates, Co-Founder and CEO of Microsoft: “Curious how Harry Potter will age post-Hogwarts?”
2. Steve Jobs, Co-Founder and CEO of Apple: “Apple releases an iPhone every 0.5 seconds. Steve Jobs never gets an upgrade. The Svengali’s self-inflicted uniform (black turtleneck, dad jeans, Seinfeld kicks) rival Superman’s in its homogeneity—a style blunder no AutoCorrect can fix.”
1. Mark Zuckerberg, Co-Founder, President and CEO of Facebook: “Oblivious to the fact that jeans and ties come in skinny sizes—or that suits exist—the father of Facebook (and we do mean father) loves to recycle the fresh-from-Stats-class look. Zuck’s style is so poor, it even inspired a mock fashion line, Mark By Mark Zuckerberg, which thankfully doesn’t sell any actual clothing.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]
I doubt Steve cares.. And you guys being so u
I doubt Steve cares.. And you guys being so upset is more predictable than his wardrobe.
“Releases an iPhone every 5 seconds?” I wish. Steve looks cool, and he wears a uniform like most superheroes. So do I. I hope he hasn’t patented his look, because I too favor black tees and jeans- though I need the belt and can’t tolerate the mock-turtle on my neck…
they might not be fashion icon. but they rock every one of our life, every day. and I guess the puffter would care about fashion so much.
So Steve has a work uniform it’s not like he always wears it
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we just need a RL Tony Stark
Steve was quite dapper in his younger, healthier days. Bow ties, nehru jackets. It’s not what you wear but how you wear them. Steve wore his uniform well, until he got ill, but of course, no one looks great when they are ill.
uh, didn’t Albert Einstein consistently wear the same clothing so as not to waste the precious brainpower on such a trivial task? I suspect our dear Steve takes the same approach…
I was wondering what would you guys say if Steve Jobs starts to wear a suit….
I’m sure most would go crazy editing past comments..
Steve can wear whatever he wants and it’s fine with me.
In Steve’s case clothes don’t make the man. It doesn’t matter if he wears jeans a suit or a tux. Respect for Steve comes as a result of his unigue and demonstrated abilities.
I’ve got to wonder who was on the list of Silicon Valley’s best dressed list?
Do you really care?
Real men don’t wear “outfits”.
Like it or not GQ,
it all comes down to:
“To each his own”
I personally outright refused in the olden days of the 1970s to wear ‘bell bods’, aka bell bottom pants. It wasn’t because they looked gay. It was because they were stupid. Instead, I was one of the innovators (heehee) of The Grunge Look, what became de rigor in the late 1980s, 1990s. That was MY fashion statement.
As stated above, I had better things to worry about than what crap was being foisted on the public as this season’s ‘chic’. I laughed and laughed at Designer Jeans. I was an early abandoner of Levis. The damned things don’t fit human butts. Hoodies and canvas sneakers were what little kids wore when I was a little kid. I’m supposed to wear them NOW? No way.
Generally, creative people, nerds, geeks, and even (you will note) fashion designers, wear what’s comfortable and ignore the rest.
Then there’s the fact that men where uniforms and women wear whatever they like. What could be more BORING that the history of the male suit. ‘Oh, the lapels changed this year. How revolutionary. Sorry I fell asleep during the men’s fashion show. zzzzz’
So wear what you like and like what you wear and give a finger to those who don’t like it. And women: Enjoy your freedom of clothing choice. Pity we uniform monkey suit wearing men. Admire Steve Jobs for deciding for himself what to wear, enjoying the comfort while inventing the future.
Steve, being the master marketer of all time, dresses for his pop culture, mindless followers. With about 99% of Apple customers (I’m among the other 1%) running around in dirty t-shirts, rank shorts, and moldy flip flops, he confirms their fashion wisdom.
Steve J has created an icon of himself. Who is he trying to impress? Not the ones who already accept the icon he has created and the company he founded and represents. To all the others he uses marketing of product with substance and style without his image. He gets my vote, and my money.
The only reason magazines have these lists is to get hits and get people riled up. They are pointless and not worthy of anything. Who the heck care what some nobody like Clover Hope writes anyway? It’s all about the clicks. I learned along time ago that how a person looks or dresses isn’t always indicative of who they are. Although in Ballmer’s case it confirms stereotypes. And the fact that they left off Eric the pink shows how little Ms. Hope knows or else they like that gay look, which is probably the case.
Jobs is comfortable with who he is. He doesn’t need fashion to convey his status in the world. He’s Steve Jobs. Period.
Unless someone is getting something out of the way they dress (i.e. money), who really gives a shit, other than those who have the shallow need to impress people that they don’t know or hate?
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