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1. There's an enormous amount of MS created wealth in the Seattle area. Yes it doesn't match NYC, but it's also a pool of people likely to be interested in inve
by jasonwatkinspdx 11y ago
1. There's an enormous amount of MS created wealth in the Seattle area. Yes it doesn't match NYC, but it's also a pool of people likely to be interested in investing in software and technology startups.
2. Seattle is a huge city with a ton of people, saying "Seattle doesn't have a high risk appetite" is a pretty absurd generalization. It'd be best to talk about specific causes and effects rather than making assumptions about millions of people's psychology.
- pnathan 11y ago1. NYC wealth dwarfs the rest of the US. You're right in that it's a good pool, but there isn't the aggressive experimentation in tech that SF has. I attribute that to culture, bringing me to point #2. 2. The Puget Sound region is 2 million, roughly. Seattle is 650K, roughly. These are not huge by any global scale, even in the American scale. As I am reminded by the Seattle Times, the PI, and the Stranger (particularly), techies are not really welcome by the True Seattlite, and we aren't Welcome - (this is even true on reddit r/Seattle, which is the techiest of the techy). The grandiosity and merchantilism that characterizes NYC and SF isn't here. It's more about getting up at 6, working out, working hard 8-5, then going home or the bar, turning in at 11. Not doing whack experiments in a coffeeshop all night long to turn into a company. Generalizations, I know, but it's a constant drumbeat; it's the way the city is.
- budde 11y agoThe Puget Sound population is actually 4.2 million as of 2012 [1], assuredly a bit larger now. I'd call it a moderately-large metro area. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puget_Sound_region https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puget_Sound_region
- tiff_seattle 11y agoKing County just by itself has over 2 million people.