"Personally I would love to see the Wall Streeters vanish and be replaced by tech companies doing cool, interesting stuff. But I know it won't happen." That co

"Personally I would love to see the Wall Streeters vanish and be replaced by tech companies doing cool, interesting stuff. But I know it won't happen." That could be the problem with NYC startup scene. You simply _cannot_ get the absolute best and brightest "rock star" developers because they sucked into blackrock, D.E. Shaw, or some such doing rack room quant algorithms. You can't compete with what may as well be a blank check and insane bonuses. You _might_ get lucky and snag the starry eyed idealist fresh out of college, but then again, the "rock stars" in that crop might go start their own thing, or, worse, hear the siren song of Sand Hill Rd. (or Stanford Grad program, which is eventually the same thing).