[sdan]

As a Bay Area native I wish this hadn’t happen, but sometimes radical change creates radical results.

[gnicholas]

This is a single cohort, and they make no indication that they are changing their policy for future cohorts. No one in the Bay Area should care about this one-off change unless they applied to this batch and are worried about the extra competition.

[AYBABTME]

Why do you wish so?

[sdan]

Well I understand deeply that there's nothing more powerful that in-person connections.

I've witnessed that multiple times when I sneaked into some "exclusive" events in silicon valley.

[xwdv]

It erodes some of the Bay Area’s attraction for new talent and new companies.

[immy]

As someone who doesn't yet own property here, I'm okay with that.