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> You need waaaaay more that 2-3 million; most of that is funneled directly in to SF landords pockets Which is why you should build your team in Denver, Minnea
by duped 1y ago
> You need waaaaay more that 2-3 million; most of that is funneled directly in to SF landords pockets
Which is why you should build your team in Denver, Minneapolis, Chicago, Detroit, etc. There's a competitive advantage to hiring outside the SF tech bubble today. Over the last 5 years the network effects in SF have begun to evaporate.
- cmontella 1y agoAgreed in hindsight, but at the same time there was no place else where a couple of 20-somethings could grab a cup of coffee with a VC and walk away with a handshake deal for $2 million dollars. That just didn't happen in Denver et al in 2014.
- zdragnar 1y agoDoes that still happen today? Anecdotally there has appeared to have been a massive funding crunch for pretty much anything that isn't virtual healthcare or AI since COVID passed, though I'll be the first to admit I'm not in the know on a lot of these things.
- ChadNauseam 1y agoMy anecdata is the opposite. I know people getting funding for non-AI projects. The most "nontraditional" one I can think of is Nautilus [0]. [0]: https://www.nautilus.quest/ https://www.nautilus.quest/
- stachudotnet 1y agoWe (darklang) are fully remote! One person in Vermont, one in Algeria. :)
- nand_gate 1y agoMust be nice making SF rates out in Algeria!
- VirusNewbie 1y agoThis is a pretty weird take. Talent in Denver, Minneapolis, Chicago etc. is not a whole lot cheaper than in the Bay Area. Employees are getting a large (majority) of their comp as options or RSUs, so that makes the delta even smaller, you're just talking base salary. If that's "make or break" for you, then something is wrong. There are plenty of reasons to want to have a distributed workforce (larger talent pool in general, passionate employees) but saving money is the least important one here.