I certainly can't deny your experience but sure it's different. All the hype and money and "cachet" was in Silicon Valley during dot.com boom. Having been dee

I certainly can't deny your experience but sure it's different. All the hype and money and "cachet" was in Silicon Valley during dot.com boom. Having been deeply embedded in that era of Silicon Valley, I can't think of a single recognizable tech company in SF in those days. Later, absolutely. But not in the late 90s boom. Netscape IPO kicked it off and Sun and Cisco took it to the heights now known as the dot.com boom.