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I 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 ago
I've always thought that "Silicon Valley" was just a broad term that described tech companies anywhere in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- pmoriarty 4y ago
  That'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 ago
  It is.
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- yamtaddle 4y ago
  IDK 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 ago
https://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

I've always thought that "Silicon Valley" was just a broad term that described tech companies anywhere in the San Francisco Bay Area.

pmoriarty 4y ago
That'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 ago
It is.
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yamtaddle 4y ago
IDK 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 ago

https://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