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Maybe I'm missing the context here, but Reddit is in San Francisco. They're in the same SoMa office building Wired is in.

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tehwebguy 12y ago
Yes, the context is that it used to be a somewhat remote team and when the latest round of funding was raised everyone outside of SF was essentially forced to move to San Francisco.
- chipotle_coyote 12y ago
  Okay, thanks. (I'm not really sure why someone's downvoted me for asking the question; it's not like I said "ha ha, OP is stupid for saying this." I was, in fact, missing context.)
gojomo 12y ago
Maybe Wong wanted to move HQ to the Valley proper, rather than SF itself? Almost all corporate HQ relocations move closer to the CEO's home. But also, there's a (plausibly-fair) knock on SF-city-based companies as being more superficial, frothier, and more prone to distraction and high-burn rates than those in the more-authentically-nerdy Valley. Maybe someone can leak where Wong wanted the new HQ to be.
- zzleeper 12y ago
  > Almost all corporate HQ relocations move closer to the CEO's home. Is there any evidence of that? Seems quite interesting..
  - cschmidt 12y ago
    Apparently that is William Whyte's rule: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/OfficeNewYork.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/OfficeNewYork.html
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  - gojomo 12y ago
    It was already folklore back when I was first part of a company discussing new office locations, in the 90s. (My father may have even mentioned it when I was child.) Since then, I've observed it often – though in fairness that may be confirmation bias. The ~cschmidt sibling reply highlights a Joel-on-Software post about the phenomenon from 2003, attributed to a 20th-century urbanist/organizational-analyst, William Whyte, perhaps as coined in a 1958 book. Here's a critique of a Connecticut tax incentive from earlier this year that notes all 5 resulting corporate relocations reduced their CEO's commute: http://www.raisinghale.com/2014/07/16/connecticut-taxpayers-fund-shorter-ceo-commutes/ http://www.raisinghale.com/2014/07/16/connecticut-taxpayers-...
    - zzleeper 12y ago
      Thanks for the replies guys!
- jdmichal 12y ago
  > Maybe someone can leak where Wong wanted the new HQ to be. Sam himself obliges: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8604199 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8604199

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tehwebguy 12y ago

Yes, the context is that it used to be a somewhat remote team and when the latest round of funding was raised everyone outside of SF was essentially forced to move to San Francisco.

chipotle_coyote 12y ago
Okay, thanks. (I'm not really sure why someone's downvoted me for asking the question; it's not like I said "ha ha, OP is stupid for saying this." I was, in fact, missing context.)

gojomo 12y ago

Maybe Wong wanted to move HQ to the Valley proper, rather than SF itself? Almost all corporate HQ relocations move closer to the CEO's home. But also, there's a (plausibly-fair) knock on SF-city-based companies as being more superficial, frothier, and more prone to distraction and high-burn rates than those in the more-authentically-nerdy Valley. Maybe someone can leak where Wong wanted the new HQ to be.

zzleeper 12y ago
> Almost all corporate HQ relocations move closer to the CEO's home. Is there any evidence of that? Seems quite interesting..
- cschmidt 12y ago
  Apparently that is William Whyte's rule: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/OfficeNewYork.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/OfficeNewYork.html
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- gojomo 12y ago
  It was already folklore back when I was first part of a company discussing new office locations, in the 90s. (My father may have even mentioned it when I was child.) Since then, I've observed it often – though in fairness that may be confirmation bias. The ~cschmidt sibling reply highlights a Joel-on-Software post about the phenomenon from 2003, attributed to a 20th-century urbanist/organizational-analyst, William Whyte, perhaps as coined in a 1958 book. Here's a critique of a Connecticut tax incentive from earlier this year that notes all 5 resulting corporate relocations reduced their CEO's commute: http://www.raisinghale.com/2014/07/16/connecticut-taxpayers-fund-shorter-ceo-commutes/ http://www.raisinghale.com/2014/07/16/connecticut-taxpayers-...
  - zzleeper 12y ago
    Thanks for the replies guys!
jdmichal 12y ago
> Maybe someone can leak where Wong wanted the new HQ to be. Sam himself obliges: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8604199 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8604199