As someone outside looking in who's skied there once and know a few people from there or lives there: 1. Big pay differential. This is probably why it only h

As someone outside looking in who's skied there once and know a few people from there or lives there: 1. Big pay differential. This is probably why it only hires locals for the most part. 2. Mormonism is ascendant, and the tech industry is mostly non-religious. You hear stories about it can stifle your social life your not mormon or don't wish to participate in mormonism. Like if your kid marries a mormon and your not mormon, well you're not going into the temple to participate in the marriage ceremony levels of soft social exclusion. I've lived in the bay area, startup to big co. And 80-100 hour weeks are fairly uncommon in practice unless your working in a very small startup fighting for its life. Along with having a family being anything much of a real problem. Overall I find it unfortunate that equity financing is looked at as debt, vs the joint venture with the rich that it's more like. Nothing wrong with bootstrapping, but it's obviously limiting as you pointed out.