I like the article but it reminds me of the quote: "A politician is someone who gets in front of a mob calls it a parade." I don't mean that as a slight.

I like the article but it reminds me of the quote: "A politician is someone who gets in front of a mob calls it a parade." I don't mean that as a slight. I just think that the article makes him out as the figurehead of a movement that comes from a different place. I think startup communities are a nature consequence of geeks getting money and deciding it is more interesting to build companies that buy fancy cars. It is somehow an echo of the original .Com boom combined with Moore's law changing the balance of power in the business world.