SF was always the Accidental Billionaire. Because of proximity to Silicon Valley, it benefitted from tech wealth its policies did nothing to create. Its collapse will redistribute opportunity to rest of country. So SF politicians will “spread the wealth” just not how they thought
While this is true of policies, it's not completely random that SV is near SF. The accepting, slightly wacky culture of the Bay Area is appealing to founders, and SF is one of the main sources of it.
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Do you think the accepting part is still true?
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Good point. SF is certainly much more intolerant than it used to be. It's still probably more tolerant than the US average, but for sure the margin has decreased.
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If anyone would like my documentary idea, it's called 'Off 101'. Just list the global innovations and tech companies founded off 101 on a 60 mile strip roughly between Sonoma County and Morgan Hills.
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Indeed. Stanford definitely helped, too?
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Keep Stanford weird!!
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I think its subversiveness and slightly wacky culture was much of the appeal for so many of us who believed in the revolution that the internet invoked. But my experience of SF in the last four years has been of the most straight-laced, stiff, mainstream cities I have ever been.
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Did it create such gravitational pull that the mainstream swung around to it? Did it lose its edge as a creator of culture and ideas? Maybe. I’m sure some don’t care, but for me the best ideas come from the edge—so I hope SF gets to shift again as it has so many times before.
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Also, some startups required a city in which to incubate the idea (Yelp, Uber etc.) which SF provided
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It seems that they are choosing Austin now for similar reasons.
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