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SF at 19th, market must be saturated now. Is this still where the graduates would flock to now?
Well, I don't really measure a city's tech scene by employees and office space but rather actual accomplishments like number of patents, number of billion-dollar companies, amount of venture capital, etc. And those are all areas where SF and Silicon Valley are in a league of their own, by a very large margin.
That said, I think it's long overdue that high tech expand it's presence away from the West Coast and Northeast and into areas that are not as well known in the industry.
We have a congressman in Silicon Valley named Ro Khanna that has been pushing for tech to fan out from here to other areas for years now, and I agree with him. Who knows the amazing breakthroughs that come out of places that you don't normally think of. And good for them.
Well, I don't really measure a city's tech scene by employees and office space but rather actual accomplishments like number of patents, number of billion-dollar companies, amount of venture capital, etc. And those are all areas where SF and Silicon Valley are in a league of their own, by a very large margin.
That said, I think it's long overdue that high tech expand it's presence away from the West Coast and Northeast and into areas that are not as well known in the industry.
We have a congressman in Silicon Valley named Ro Khanna that has been pushing for tech to fan out from here to other areas for years now, and I agree with him. Who knows the amazing breakthroughs that come out of places that you don't normally think of. And good for them.
Is it really though? People saying Texas is the new SV must be forgetting the pre 90s days of Compaq, Dell, TI, EDS, BMC software etc. Texas had a firmer grip on the computer industry then than it does today. I would definitely say that SV’s dominance is growing rather than shrinking.
This article is about where programmers work. Two completely different things imo. People must have forgot what technology actually is.
Well, I don't really measure a city's tech scene by employees and office space but rather actual accomplishments like number of patents, number of billion-dollar companies, amount of venture capital, etc. And those are all areas where SF and Silicon Valley are in a league of their own, by a very large margin.
That said, I think it's long overdue that high tech expand it's presence away from the West Coast and Northeast and into areas that are not as well known in the industry.
We have a congressman in Silicon Valley named Ro Khanna that has been pushing for tech to fan out from here to other areas for years now, and I agree with him. Who knows the amazing breakthroughs that come out of places that you don't normally think of. And good for them.
In terms of economic impact, venture capital and patents speak to POTENTIAL. But it's payroll that really matters TODAY, along with company shares though those are more spread out.
As for the also rans, I don't think people realize the massive scale of San Francisco's tech. They'll never touch it. That includes my city where the top two HQs alone employ 120,000.
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