Aren't seeds for planting?

Silicon Valley is probably one of the few places in the world where you feel poor if you can’t afford a multi-million dollar home.  Everyone you meet is in a startup, venture fund, works at Facebook, Airbnb, or some other company you’ve never heard of that’s worth a billion dollars.  You start to adapt to that mentality thinking this is how life is.  Most conversations start with how’s work, just got funding, we got our seed round, second round, we just went public, we sold.  It’s enough to make you look in the mirror and feel like a complete failure.  Ironically, a few hundred miles away in la la land of LA, the conversation is completely different.  You bring up a seed round, and most people think you’ve got a new angle on gardening.  That is reality, this is not. It's almost as if the Valley has become plastic, and LA is the reality.  How f'd up is that?