I read a pretty good book on this subject, “Accidental Empires.” If I recall correctly there were two general kinds of pirates of Silicon Valley: hippies and nerds. Generally speaking, Bill Gates would be the nerd and Steve Jobs the hippy. Gates wanted to be the richest man in the world and Jobs wanted to save the world.
I’ve known more than one mask designer who said that LSD enabled them to better visualize the layout, placement of parts and routing of interconnects.
Never wanted to be a mask designer that badly, my self...