I can understand the upside of this, with the better routine, health, everyone living in the same house etc. However, I think the isolation is VERY dangerous.

I can understand the upside of this, with the better routine, health, everyone living in the same house etc. However, I think the isolation is VERY dangerous. Yes, silicon valley is a bit of an echo chamber, but at the same time, you are around some of the smartest minds in the world. Our first few VC meetings resulted in a "pivot" of sorts. Still same end goal, but different way of going about it. Being around everyone in the travel tech industry, and being able to set up meetings with them, has changed our go-to-market strategy and our priorities. These smart people have a way of poking holes in your strategy. There is something to be said for talking to "normal" people, but I can say we have talked to hundreds of normal people, and the most valuable advice we got was from those VCs and angels, or travel tech people. We possibly would have wasted months if we didn't seek out these experts and learn from their success and failure. By moving to Hawaii you risk losing that. The Adioso guys kind of mentioned this, that living in Melbourne they weren't around the same type of environment and PG brought them back to earth when they got back here. The ruthlessness of silicon valley has it's upside.