[takrupp]

Most of this data is for a ten year period. The US has been lucky to have a place like California for the last 2 decades, but that doesn't mean it will be on top forever.

Texas is leading most of these categories (except of course VC funding...) for the last 2 years. Winds are turning. California isn't going anywhere, but they probably wont be the cats meow for the next 10 years.

[hga]

Maybe ... I can see California killing SV in one way or another, slowly or nor so slowly, but one overwhelming advantage it has over every other state is that non-competes are uninformative. (And for startups, a much more recent law means you own what you do with your own effort, resources and ideas.)

A liquid market in talent, so to speak, can make up for a lot of other problems, and arguably has.