Overview

• In fresh interviews with the Guardian and Bloomberg, Clegg calls the Valley “cloyingly conformist” and “a place of stampedes and fads.”
• He characterizes a widespread posture of “machismo and self-pity,” arguing that powerful figures portray themselves as victims.
• He points to Elon Musk’s chainsaw stunt and the tech podcast circuit as examples of performative bravado.
• He defends Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, saying he would not have worked at Meta if he believed they were “monsters.”
• He advances a pro‑AI view, saying mandatory payments for copyrighted training data are “implausible,” as he promotes the book after departing Meta in January.