Silicon Valley is moving up the stack as it were or down the stack. The edges that are actually touching people, um, are being developed more locally. It's almost like if you were to think of tech as like a, a corporation,. There's the main office that's taken care of all the broadly used functions. And then the local offices are attuning the products to the local markets and needs and sensibilities. So just what's interesting is despite the fact that theoretically it's, it's becoming easier for you to start one of these businesses, at least in the U.S., there are massive cluster advantages from going to the super hubs where it's attracting the right engineers.
This episode was actually recorded on February 18; however, due to circumstances, we had to hibernate Exponent and the episode was never actually edited and posted.
Now that the show is back – for good this time – we wanted to post the “missing episode” plenty of folks have asked us about. There are a couple of dated references, but the content is still very applicable.
In this episode we talk about privilege and whether Silicon Valley is solving the right problems. It’s certainly not a new question, but has it become more pressing in the last few months?
Links:
- Don’t Build Your Startup Outside of Silicon Valley – Max Wessell HBR
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