It feels like that, but some data say SF as of a few months ago had less tech jobs than in 2000, see http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/03/2

It feels like that, but some data say SF as of a few months ago had less tech jobs than in 2000, see http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/03/26/BUG41IHABH.DTL http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/03/26/... Here are the comments I left on that article, with one line of context added between them. I got no response on sfgate (no surprise!) ... I'm surprised that the number of tech jobs in SF still hasn't surpassed the 2000 level. SF still felt like a tech backwater then; now it doesn't so much. However, I believe the research. Likely the SF tech workers were just really poorly deployed in 2000. I imagine fairly small in number of employees, but the nonprofit tech sector in SF has also become really important over the past half-decade, in particular Wikimedia Foundation and Public Library of Science. The Internet Archive is an old stalwart that has recently expanded. (I work for a smaller related nonprofit, Creative Commons, that moved from Stanford to SF in 2004, and (sadly) is moving from SF to Mountain View (where Mozilla is another significant tech nonprofit) next month.) I think there's an interesting cluster here. Clearly Oakland/Berkeley/Emeryville is the future. Because I say. Re number and % of tech jobs in SF in 2000 vs 2011: (34116/.144)-(32180/.174)=51974 Has SF lost >50k "nongovernment office" jobs in ~10 years or am I missing something? ... Related to my first comment, Mozilla is opening an SF office this summer http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/techchron/detail?entry_id=87452 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/techchron/detail?entry_i...