I think your susceptibility to the industry echo chamber has more to do with your personality and where you come from than where you are. There are lots of peop

I think your susceptibility to the industry echo chamber has more to do with your personality and where you come from than where you are. There are lots of people outside of SV who don't want to work on anything that isn't related to the iPhone or Twitter. And there are lots of people in SV working on unsexy but massively profitable things like Facebook apps (which were sexy two years ago, before they started making big bucks) or whatever else.