[MrMan]

I can't address sweeping dismissals but I can offer another narrative. A few years ago Hacker News started to become popular. PG blogged about things and wrote books and raised his profile and the profile of this site, and the profile of the companies in which he invested. Around this time it became clear that it was getting easier to start web companies. Cheaper in raw dollars to setup, you could hire fewer people who could support more users. This is true. It was mildly insightful in 2008 to say this, but now people put their scalability recipes on slideshare and it's clear that a small team can "execute" their ideas more easily now. And this is just in the world of "tech" which I think is mis-labelled.

It has nothing to do with geography, despite the efforts of propaganda emanating from the Valley to convince you otherwise.

By all means don't take my word for it, but by the same token don't fly off the handle talking about flying cars. Just think quietly about how impossible many businesses that currently exist would be a decade ago. I never said anything about the Valley in my previous post. I don't have anything to do with the Valley, but your remoteness from it doesn't help your post gain any clarity.