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South of Market was cheap, starting in the early 1990s. Startups back then liked cheap.
by beamatronic 7y ago
South of Market was cheap, starting in the early 1990s. Startups back then liked cheap.
- nostrademons 7y agoThe center of Silicon Valley oscillates between SF and SJ on a roughly 10-year cycle, corresponding to major technology generations (and loosely, to bubble/build cycles). It was around Redwood City in the early 1970s (Ampex, Oracle), moved to Palo Alto and Cupertino for the PC/workstation era in the late 70s (Sun, Cisco, Apple, Seagate) down as far as San Jose and even Scotts Valley during the 80s (Adobe, Memorex, Borland), started moving north to Mountain View in the early 90s (SGI, Netscape), moved back to SF for the dot-com boom, moved back south to Palo Alto and Mountain View in the late 90s (Yahoo, Paypal, Google, Facebook, YCombinator), then moved back to SF starting in 2006 and significantly accelerating in 2011 (Reddit, AirBnB, Stripe, Twitter, Zynga, Medium, etc.) It's still in SF, though it remains to be seen where the next technology generation will take hold or if it'll even be in the Bay Area.
- rficcaglia 7y agoI see a lot of building in downtown RWC and San Carlos. Maybe won’t be the center, but definitely a significant uptick.
- lonelappde 7y agoYou're comparing Medium to Adobe. Wow.