20 years ago, if you wanted to set up something that had a web service, uh, you needed a sun server, which was $50,000. You needed a database from Oracle, which was several hundred thousand dollars in capital costs just to get off the ground before you even thought about salaries or anything on those lines. Today you can rent capacity, all the capital capacity you need on AWS or Rackspace or whatever. Um, and that's nice at Silicon Valley, but what's really interesting is in other markets, it lets you get investment more easily than you could before. I think it's why you're seeing stuff, you know, stuff like that. Right?
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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