[tptacek]

I know that not to be true, unless there was a fallow period between the time that my company paid ridiculous $/sqft for space in SF to be among the VC-funded idiots of the time (2001) and today. But I don't buy that there was such a time. And, if anything, SF seems to have gotten even trendier since ~2005.

If you want to make the point that the particular wave of companies domiciled in SFBA are now anomalously likely to be going public, I won't argue with you, but that's a narrower point than the one I feel you originally made.

[drusenko]

I was not around in 2001 so I will take your word on that one. It looks like there may have been a lull and then a resurgence around ~2007:

http://venturebeat.com/2007/01/14/weebly-offers-free-easy-we... "The company is just three people from State College, PA. Co-founder David Rusenko originally told VentureBeat he would move to Mountain View. He changed his mind, he said, because he found a vibrant Internet start-up ecosystem in hipper San Francisco — the latest sign that San Francisco has become more of a magnet for these kinds of companies."

http://replay.web.archive.org/20070118083006/http://www.bizj...?