Needless to say, it has no Web page, and the group’s members are largely unknown outside their own companies (most prefer it that way).
In a town where there’s a meetup group for “growth hackers” and “big data” aficionados, this club is by far the most obscure - and perhaps the most exclusive. The relationship is highly intimate: They’re the ones who brief the executives in the morning and are often the last people the leaders communicate with before going to sleep. “As tech matures, things need a much more rigid structure.”Ĭhiefs of staff are the people who control access to the people every entrepreneur wants to meet.
Myhrvold is chief executive of a company called Intellectual Ventures, which sells patents. “Silicon Valley used to be more scrappy,” said Brian Screnar, chief of staff to Nathan Myhrvold, formerly Microsoft’s chief technology officer. Its growth in many companies is reflective of the evolution of the start-up boom: Companies have gotten bigger, often very quickly, and they’re seeking more organization and hierarchy as a result. But increasingly, one quintessential Washington institution is taking hold: the chief of staff. Tech executives have long derided the nation’s capital as a place where good ideas go to die by a thousand regulatory cuts. Silicon Valley likes to thumb its nose at Washington. Instead, the evening marked the quarterly gathering for Silicon Valley chiefs of staff - an under-the-radar group whose members are the right-hand men and women to tech’s biggest power players. The people assembled wielded about as much power as anyone in Silicon Valley, but they weren’t the likes of Sheryl Sandberg, Marissa Mayer or Elon Musk. SAN FRANCISCO - One evening in March, a group of tech industry elite sat around a table in the private dining room of a Michelin-star restaurant in San Francisco, listening to a talk about how to do their jobs.
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