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Sure the title may be jumping the gun a bit, but you're severely overhyping SF and underestimating NYC with your comment. The fact that Fog Creek and Reddit (mo
by ghobs91 8y ago
Sure the title may be jumping the gun a bit, but you're severely overhyping SF and underestimating NYC with your comment. The fact that Fog Creek and Reddit (moved to SF) were the companies that came to mind shows that you don't know the NYC tech landscape well.
On top of the condensed list below NYC has Columbia, NYU, and Cornell Tech in terms of talent pool, and one of the most extensive transit systems in the world.
1. Bloomberg
2. Oath (AOL + Yahoo)
3. Blue Apron
4. Buzzfeed
5. Tumblr
6. Etsy
7. AppNexus
8. Flatiron Health
9. Oscar Health
10. Shutterstock
11. Squarespace
12. IAC (Tinder, Match.com, OKCupid, etc)
13. Zocdoc
14. Compass
15. Casper
16. MongoDB
17. Warby Parker
18. Vimeo
19. Betterment
20. Classpass
21. DigitalOcean
22. Foursquare
23. Fanduel
24. Stackoverflow
25. SeatGeek
26. Birchbox
etc.
- carljv 8y agoIt’s interesting to see how the definition of “tech company” has expanded. Only one or two of these companies create and sell software or technology. These are startups, maybe, and I think we can talk about where the “innovative” companies are. But these are companies that run platforms online, or use the web to sell products in novel ways. They seem very different from most of the companies on the parent comment’s list.
- ghobs91 8y agoThis is partly a side effect of tech becoming so big, it's segmenting into products vs services. For example, Tinder isn't directly selling software to anyone, it's selling a dating service that runs exclusively on software. You could say the same about Facebook, what software is it selling directly to consumers? None. It's selling a social network service to its users and an ad network service to its clients, built entirely on software.
- romwell 8y agoSure. Tinder and Facebook are tech firms, and so is Bloomberg. That mattress company you put on the list isn't. Lines in the sand, yadda yadda, slapping a website on a store doesn't make it "tech".
- romwell 8y ago>Tech landscape Companies that use tech for their business =/= tech companies. My overview: 1. Bloomberg [news, finance data tech] 2. AOL [zombie telecom?]. Yahoo HQ is in Sunnyvale. 3. Blue Apron [food] 4. Buzzfeed [news] 5. Tumblr [zombie adult microblogging] 6. Etsy [online marketplace] 7. AppNexus [adtech] 8. Flatiron Health [health] 9. Oscar Health [health] 10. Shutterstock [image hosting] 11. Squarespace [web hosting] 12. IAC (Tinder, Match.com, OKCupid, etc) [online dating] 13. Zocdoc [health] 14. Compass [real estate] 15. Casper [mattresses. Matresses, Carl!] 16. MongoDB [tech] 17. Warby Parker [eyeglasses] 18. Vimeo [video hosting] 19. Betterment [finance] 20. Classpass [um, fitness?] 21. DigitalOcean [cloud tech] 22. Foursquare [search tech] 23. Fanduel [gambling] 24. Stackoverflow [BBS tech] 25. SeatGeek [online ticket booth] 26. Birchbox [makeup] I mean, if we brand matress, fitness, and make-up companies as "tech", then sure, plenty of tech in NYC. Otherwise, I'd say it sounds a little... overhyped.