[ajiang]

Very fascinating insight. As someone who moved from SF to Santa Monica, I can say that if I only stayed in LA, this would absolutely be the case. You lose quite a bit of network value, which definitely impacts (1) fundraising, (2) hiring, and (3) overall work opportunities.

Improving network for people in non-geographically dense areas seems like a problem waiting for a solution.

[wasdfff]

And the solution is hampered by the privacy of given companies. I work in biology, and networking opportunities happen multiple times a year in different international conferences. You present your work and look at everyone else’s in your field, effectively networking with the entire field at once, multiple times a year. There doesn’t seem to be an international community like this in computer science, and I don’t know that there will be beyond academic conferences just because of the secrecy of research in tech. There’s a strong anti collaborative sentiment in technology that hampers joint innovation because everyone just wants to get profitable before anyone else. Even in biotech, employees have chances to present their work in conferences.