It is not conspiracy theory rather a business decision to not want to be in a labor market where your competitors can hire away your best workers. It could al

It is not conspiracy theory rather a business decision to not want to be in a labor market where your competitors can hire away your best workers. It could also be true that 1. Gates didn't want to locate in SV for that business reason but 2. Deciding that he didn't want to be in SV, he then chose Seattle over another location. You do understand the business case for not locating his firm in SV? You do understand that at the time he made his decision, that SV and tech was much smaller than today and he wanted to keep his labor rates lower and that locating outside of SV was a way to achieve this.