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Guy Kawasaki once had a post that states the reason why, but in a different angle - it's a post basically on why Silicon Valley is successful: >>https://guykaw
by kindatrue 9y ago
Guy Kawasaki once had a post that states the reason why, but in a different angle - it's a post basically on why Silicon Valley is successful:
>>https://guykawasaki.com/how_to_kick_sil/ https://guykawasaki.com/how_to_kick_sil/
High housing prices. If houses are cheap, it means that young people can buy housing sooner and have kids. When they have kids, they can’t take as much risk and don’t have as much energy to start companies. (I have four kids—I barely have the time and energy to blog, much less start a company.) Also, if houses are cheap, it’s easier to “make it big,” and you want it to be hard to make it big.<<
- linkregister 9y agoWasn’t most of SV’s most important growth during a time when housing, talent, and funding were plentiful? Each generation of companies has come from dream teams from the previous. Space race R&D contracts and AT&T engineers begat HP, which begat Apple, Oracle, and Intel, then Sun Microsystems and the dot-coms, then Google and Apple 2.0, now the current crop of companies. SV housing being expensive has only been true for the last 20 years, and has only been utterly unaffordable for the last three. Guy knows his probate housing, self-help writing, and public speaking, but I don’t take him as an authority for computer company insights.