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The analysis is low quality for a lot of reasons... 1. It motivates moving to sv because there are "lots" of successful startups. Is the rate of successful sta

The analysis is low quality for a lot of reasons... 1. It motivates moving to sv because there are "lots" of successful startups. Is the rate of successful startups higher than elsewhere? 2. Average reported salary is a garbage statistic. Compare median values, between jobs of equal "status" (Google != j-random shipping company... Compare Google sv to Google Seattle within job title groups)

tedmiston 10y ago
> 1. It motivates moving to sv because there are "lots" of successful startups. Is the rate of successful startups higher than elsewhere? Probably, yes, but hard to say since a 2–3x "acquihire" can be a big success for another a city but considered a failure in SF, so how "success" is defined is different. Even with that, the probability of hopping on a rocketship is still very low < 1%. It might be higher in the Bay Area than elsewhere, but I felt the article was disingenuous if the intent was to suggest an engineer has good odds of picking the right rocketship at the early stage. It's not science.