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It's possible. I came to Silicon Valley with a Honda CRX and the stuff that would fit in it, a degree from the University of California and a net worth of abou
by siberianbear 9y ago
It's possible. I came to Silicon Valley with a Honda CRX and the stuff that would fit in it, a degree from the University of California and a net worth of about negative $2500. I left sixteen years later a multimillionaire.
I'm glad I left. It is a good place to get rich if you're a programmer. But I'm never going back.
I enjoyed the first couple of years in Silicon Valley. I started to hate it more every year after that.
If I was 21 years old now with a CS/CE/EE degree, I'd go to another second-tier tech hub, like NYC, Austin or maybe Boulder.
- underwater 9y agoI made it six years; that was enough for me. I wonder what percentage of coders secretly resent the place.
- siberianbear 9y agoI was there for about that amount of time when I manged to build enough reputation and connections to get into one of the hot startups at the time. I was 29 at the time. I really wanted to leave Silicon Valley, but I already realized that I had made my big break if I played it right. If I hadn't gotten into to this startup (now a big company on the NASDAQ), I would have left and moved to Austin. I continued to hate Silicon Valley more every year, but it made me rich.
- ThrustVectoring 9y agoI'm hating it after four. Nothing quite like the realization that you can either afford a house or to retire elsewhere.