[daegloe]

I was there too. I remember being disappointed that PG came all that way just to tell us all to move to the Bay Area.

IIRC, he went so far as to say that NYC would never be able to offer the community and serendipity of being surrounded by so many fellow entrepreneurs. And that NYC was too tainted by its banking culture and the drive to make money.

Of course, everyone is entitled to their opinion. NYC has come a long way!

[aeriklawson]

Lol did he really claim that SV wasn't about making money? That's rich.

[SamReidHughes]

Not if you go by the parent comment instead of what your brain translated it to.

[snakeboy]

> And that NYC was too tainted by its banking culture and the drive to make money.

Doesn't this imply fairly clearly that he believes the Bay Area is not plagued by these two things?

[ameliaquining]

It implies he thinks it's less of a thing there than in New York.