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How New York City Became Silicon Valley's Biggest Rival

• rongenre 7y ago
  Silicon Valley: Where??
  • eznoonze 7y ago
    I believe it is a valley somewhere far far away in the west.
• humble_engineer 7y ago
  Less politics, more money, same intelligence.
• helen___keller 7y ago
  Network effects are a (nonlinear) function of network size. The bay area is limited by local zoning ordinances and can't scale much larger. There's only so many locals to displace and new construction happens at a snail's pace. New York has a much larger scale already, so at this rate it's just a matter of time until New York overcomes the network effects that the bay area currently enjoys. The factors that could keep the bay area dominant are: (1) Rapid densification and development of the region pushing down prices and attracting newcomers (not likely) (2) A tech recession halts the expansion of the sector and potentially begins a phase of consolidation (3) A paradigm shift towards remote work
• malandrew 7y ago
  What I want to know is how much this extends into real engineering jobs, not just plumbing and web apps. I totally buy that ops and legal jobs in tech companies for example are growing strongly in NYC, but when it comes to real engineering problems I'm still only seeing a few teams at a few companies in NYC. Don't get me wrong. I want this to be true, because I want Silicon Valley to lose its monopoly on the best engineering problems, but it's when the most interesting problems move out of Silicon Valley will I buy the idea that it has been dethroned.
  • mr-ron 7y ago
    What do you mean by real engineering problems? Is datadog for example real engineering?