Each year, young people from around the globe go to Silicon Valley to hatch an idea, start a company, strike it rich, and become powerful and famous if they can. This is the story of three people who have "stopped out" of college and real life, to work in Silicon Valley. They embody an American cultural transformation: a move away from the East Coast hierarchy of Ivy Leage schools and country clubs toward a start-up life and a new social order, shaking up a lot of traditional rituals along the way.