What does "techies" mean? Greg Gopman's Angel List profile says: " Business Development, Communications, Community Management, Networking, Sales and Marketing, Working Really Hard." This isn't a techie. He happens to be working in the tech industry because that's where the money is at the moment, but I wouldn't call him a techie. (I'd call him a douche, but that's a whole other topic.) I think we need to start divorcing the thought that SV these days is primarily a techie place and that the people who work at SV companies are techies. Many of them are like this guy. Moreover, many of the programmers are programmers, but (and this may be being elitist) can we call them techies? If someone learns a bit of JS or ruby to throw together proof-of-concept copy-cat site, can we really call them a techie?