This has not been true in my experience. Never met someone who could downshift from scale to startup without a lot of friction and mishaps.
This is something I misunderstood for a long time. The value of SF isn’t finding 100 people who can write Python. It’s finding the person who led the team that did exactly what you need at Google and can spin up the team to do it like it’s second nature.https://twitter.com/angiemeeker/status/1013893486557499393 …
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I’m not talking about google today, I’m talking about google 15 yrs ago
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There are a lot of people who spun up python teams at google 15 yrs ago? Or you’re saying it was an advantage google had 15 yrs ago?
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No they were the execs that helped google hyperscale 15 yrs ago and know how that’s done
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Aah, and they’re easy to find and hire now?
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No, but they’re all in the Bay Area
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And when those people hyperscaled Google, they had all done it before?
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Either yes or they watched people who had done it before
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I worked with the person who created ZeroMQ along with other members of the ZeroMQ community without ever leaving Virginia. I haven't worked on networks, distributed systems and internet infrastructure my whole life in order to sit in the same room as the people I code with.
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I assert that given what is happening in the U.S. right now, the idea that the best programmers and engineers are going to keep living in Silicon Valley, or even U.S. at all, is incorrect and a bad bet.
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Again, it's not about engineers, it's about executives
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I assert that given what is happening in the U.S. right now, the idea that the best executives are going to keep living in Silicon Valley, or even U.S. at all, is incorrect and a bad bet.
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I assert that right now 90% of the top tech execs live within 200 miles of Palo Alto. What happens in the future I don't pretend to know
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I suppose if your goal is to repeat patterns of extracting value from programmers while building products that collect and sell data, this makes sense. I think our world views are too different to have a nuanced discussion 280 characters at a time.
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I agree on your last point. The notion that all that happens in SV is extracting value from programmers and collecting and selling data is just silly, and you know that
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Need to be sure you really need that thing--often only in the abstract is that true. There's a great lesson on that in the book "Dreaming In Code" (no matter the problem, calendaring for example, they were going to get an object-oriented database). https://smile.amazon.com/Dreaming-Code-Programmers-Transcendent-Software-ebook/dp/B000PDZFOI/ …
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This is a great point
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sure, but at what point does it become exponentially easier to get a key executive to relocate to another market than to build a killer team of ICs in SFBA for them to lead?
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That's the million dollar question
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