In the US, do you think that Silicon Valley will always be the center of innovation?
These past couple of years the population of the Bay Area has been on the decline, but rising tech areas such as Seattle (https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/surprise-seat....) and Austin haven’t been increasing in population as much as SF has been decreasing (https://neeva.com/search?q=sf%20population%20decrease&src=nv...). I know population isn’t everything but it is a proxy for where the perceived opportunity is.
not the center of innovation, but def the center of gravity post innovation and facing the market. for example, lots of original innovation coming out of clusters around the US (self driving in MI, energy in Houston), but when it comes time to get beyond seed or class A, those founders are going to feel an incredibly strong gravity towards SV.
I wont say never, but network effects make tbe gravity well of SV hard to ignore. Seattle is maybe the only other place I woukd think of as having enough capital to get out of the well.
I wont say never, but network effects make tbe gravity well of SV hard to ignore. Seattle is maybe the only other place I woukd think of as having enough capital to get out of the well.