Like the origin stories of PayPal, Facebook, and many more, chance meetings have fueled growth in Silicon Valley.
"[Serendipity's] mystic stature is both the Valley’s deepest-held belief and its drawing card." — @stevelevinehttp://read.medium.com/5M5X8iL
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For decades, cities everywhere have tried to replicate the Valley’s record of producing one trend-setting tech giant after another, but none has quite measured up. http://read.medium.com/5M5X8iL pic.twitter.com/rbXTYvr1qv
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But in a future remote dispersion of workers that all but excludes the unexpected, face-to-face encounter, what will Silicon Valley lose? And really, was it already lost long ago?http://read.medium.com/5M5X8iL
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Until Covid-19, Big Tech seemed to be pulling out all the stops to engineer more serendipity. "In all the cases, the idea was to create more and more chances for people to run into each other and start trading ideas." http://read.medium.com/5M5X8iL pic.twitter.com/w0y8WL17Tl
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And yet Big Tech has seemed calm if not outright indifferent regarding the potential demise of the unscripted moment in this protracted period of remote work.
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The last decade or so of Valley history may explain why: Over that time, big tech companies have largely stopped trying to invent the next big thing, at least in-house. Instead, they have shifted to milking their signature inventions. Read more.
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The bay area will go back to how it was before all the tech dorks showed up?
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A lot of folks moved to Fresno can actually move back to the Bay Area & the people live in their RV’s can afford an apartment
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The rents would go down to normal levels and stabilize. That’s a good thing for locals who have basically been locked out. The high rents in SF have had an impact on rents here in LA and it’s time for that to stop.
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