There is a feedback loop at play: the entrepreneurs go where the capital is and the capital goes where the entrepreneurs are. The geographical distribution aris

There is a feedback loop at play: the entrepreneurs go where the capital is and the capital goes where the entrepreneurs are. The geographical distribution arises organically from that feedback + the initial seed of Stanford University. It's not that VCs look down at Oakland per se, it's that there aren't many good investments to be found there.