[ladytron]

"First rate people" can work wherever they like. Thiel is going to learn this lesson the hard way.

Real innovators don't care about "scenes", "networks", or being featured in Vanity Fair.

They just need good labs and the resources to work - both of which are easy to find outside SF and NYC.

[flylib]

Thiel invests all over the world and makes plenty of investments in European companies and US companies not in those markets, reporter trying to make a non story into something