Good point. One of the things I love in Silicon Valley is that I can hire any profile I want. If my dream candidate must have worked 5 years at Google on search

Good point. One of the things I love in Silicon Valley is that I can hire any profile I want. If my dream candidate must have worked 5 years at Google on search and then two years at Salesforce because that's what I need, I know there is someone out there that fits that criteria. You can't replicate any of that stuff anywhere else. By definition, if you want to compete with Silicon Valley, you will want to hire some people from your competitors. So you have to be here as well. QED (any way around this dilemma, I'd love to hear). You can refer to an article I wrote last year called "The limits of the Silicon Valley model". Unfortunately, it was in print only for an Indian magazine, I can't find a link to it.