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They aren't in the valley for customer nor for techies, but for easy vc money access brought by locally connections. For now.
by LoSboccacc 11y ago
They aren't in the valley for customer nor for techies, but for easy vc money access brought by locally connections. For now.
- timr 11y agoWell, that's an aspect of it. But there's a heaping helping of cargo-cult superstition, too. For example, ask an entrepreneur to consider locating their office in Oakland: it's becoming more "acceptable" now that Uber has committed to a huge space over there, but a year or two ago, I had people telling me that locating in Oakland was the equivalent of wanting your company to die. For being a 20-minute BART ride from downtown SF. People have lost their minds. Also, of course, few around here believe that there are good programmers outside of the city. Mostly, though, I think it's about 20-somethings who want to feel like they've made it because they're running a startup in the most expensive city in the country. The cult is powerful, for such a group of disruptive, innovative thinkers.