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First of all Twitter is SF based, and is NOT a Silicon Valley company. It's frustrating how many people get this wrong, and most of the times when it suites a p
by yumraj 4y ago
First of all Twitter is SF based, and is NOT a Silicon Valley company. It's frustrating how many people get this wrong, and most of the times when it suites a particular narrative.
Secondly: Not to say that Twitter, or other tech firms, don't have a bunch of people who are not very productive/contributing - but is this a problem unique to tech companies and not every other company that grows beyond a point?
Are pharma companies, car manufacturers, utilities, CPG, etc etc all running a perfectly well oiled machinery. Or, is it just that the people who have been on the outside looking in with jealousy suddenly get to vent their rage during times of such correction since it gets them eyeballs.
- mrcrumb1 4y agoI mean you can die on that hill, but I'd hazard a guess that nearly everyone considers SF a part of Silicon Valley
- InsaneOstrich 4y agoI've always thought that "Silicon Valley" was just a broad term that described tech companies anywhere in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- pmoriarty 4y agoThat's a common misapprehension among people that don't live there. For anyone in the Bay Area, Silicon Valley is some ways south of San Francisco. That said, a lot of startups are in SF, because Silicon Valley is too expensive (though SF itself is catching up because of the second dot com boom/bubble), so it's not surprising that outsiders lump the two of them together as a hub of Bay Area tech activity (which they are.. but they're just two distinct geographical areas).
- jklinger410 4y agoIt is.
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- yamtaddle 4y agoIDK about elsewhere but East of the Rockies, at least, yes, they're basically used interchangeably in many contexts and nobody cares that a "Silicon Valley" story may in fact be about a company based a few miles from actual Silicon Valley. Sorta like how nobody outside New York cares about the distinction between the boroughs except maybe Manhattan, so including or excluding that information, versus just calling it all "New York", makes no difference to them (/us). In fact I bet a lot of folks think "Manhattan" and "New York (City)" are perfect synonyms, and really, it doesn't much matter that they do.
- yumraj 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley > I mean you can die on that hill, but I'd hazard a guess that nearly everyone considers SF a part of Silicon Valley Well, unless you're from the SF Bay Area (or just Bay Area). SF is a city. SF Bay Area (or just Bay Area) is a broad region. Silicon Valley is San Jose, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Redwood City, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Cupertino. Also: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=SF+vs+silicon+valley&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=SF+vs+silicon+valley&ia=web