I guarantee you, open your doors to remote programmers, and you will get more top-quality prospects than you can possibly hire. You're restricting your hiring

I guarantee you, open your doors to remote programmers, and you will get more top-quality prospects than you can possibly hire. You're restricting your hiring pool to people who are willing to live in a small, overpriced, and absurdly overrated city. It's a wonderful place, don't get me wrong. But expecting every single great programmer in the world to live in that one tiny city is just ridiculous. By Paul Graham's own arguments, they wouldn't all be able to fit.