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In fairness, downtown SF SJ and Oakland were always a tad dicey even back in dot com days so most startups preferred to be in more expensive PA MV Even East PA
by rainy59 3y ago
In fairness, downtown SF SJ and Oakland were always a tad dicey even back in dot com days so most startups preferred to be in more expensive PA MV
Even East PA was the hood. Oakland was famous for riots
SF governance has always been terrible. Real estate has gotten so expensive that startups anxious to conserve runway are pushing deeper into bad neighborhoods that were once unthinkable
- thaumasiotes 3y ago> Real estate has gotten so expensive that startups anxious to conserve runway are pushing deeper into bad neighborhoods that were once unthinkable If the cost of office space were a concern, it'd be difficult to explain why they're anywhere near the Bay Area at all.
- smabie 3y agoMore talent ?
- rainy59 3y agoYes Eastern Europe is much cheaper The nice thing about Bay Area is that everyone is on the "same page" (call it an echo chamber maybe) You can go into any meeting and mention some technical thing like LangChain and everyone knows what u are talking about. No need to waste 15 minutes getting ppl up 2 speed. Outside the Bay Area, Europe etc. you'd mostly get blank stares, even in an accelerator or hub
- inferiorhuman 3y agoEast Palo Alto is a separate city, in a different county, from Palo Alto.
- astrange 3y agoCities in California are artificial concepts that mainly exist because the people there decided they didn't want to share property taxes with the poorer people next door. EPA is the worst example, but also see Piedmont which is literally inside Oakland, and then see every single SoCal city that outsiders think are parts of Los Angeles.
- rainy59 3y agoIt's literally across the 101 The Facebook / Sun campus is there because it was cheap land
- hechtoid 3y agotechnically just over the border to the north in menlo.