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Isn't Silicon Valley a black hole with unrelenting monetary gravity that would pull all skilled software engineers down towards it? Any young developer who is
by hoodoof 11y ago
Isn't Silicon Valley a black hole with unrelenting monetary gravity that would pull all skilled software engineers down towards it? Any young developer who is any good will go from the minor leagues to the big league attracted by the cash, leaving Pittsburgh or whereever behind.
Budding "Silicon Valleys" would simply be the target of aggressive and unrelenting talent raids.
- drumdance 11y agoNot necessarily. Companies like Facebook and Google build offices outside of the Valley partly because it's less competitive. Google has been expanding in Boulder because they know their employees won't be poached as frequently as in SV.