RIP Say Media (/ Six Apart / Videoegg). We used to work in that building.
Andreessen Horowitz is opening an office in SF
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#12RIP Say Media (/ Six Apart / Videoegg). We used to work in that building.
Are other startups in that building now? I thought I saw a few when I last passed by it.
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#13oh good! just where society needed a venture capital office!
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#14I am hearing that startups are moving out of SF because it is too expensive. Can anybody explain the strategy here? I realise that funding is mostly centralised in SF, but this still feels weird to me.
They do a good amount of briefing events wherein (usually larger/well known/older) companies can meet with A16Z portfolio companies for show and tell style pitch sessions. If they can host some in SF, it would certainly make things easier for a good chunk of companies logistically. Also many of their team live in SF as the article mentions and this would certainly help their commutes.
Disclaimer: A16Z are an investor in my company
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#15RIP Say Media (/ Six Apart / Videoegg). We used to work in that building.
Did Say Media finally kick the bucket? I remember around four or five years ago they stopped paying publishers and had to make payments with a cash flow injection. Hundreds of thousands later they made everyone whole, but damn. Specialized ad industry did not treat them well.
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#16I am hearing that startups are moving out of SF because it is too expensive. Can anybody explain the strategy here? I realise that funding is mostly centralised in SF, but this still feels weird to me.
The more expensive, the better it works as a signaling mechanism.
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#17I am hearing that startups are moving out of SF because it is too expensive. Can anybody explain the strategy here? I realise that funding is mostly centralised in SF, but this still feels weird to me.
In a way, startups are leaving SF BECAUSE startups are coming to SF. That is, when there is a large influx of capital-rich startups, startups w/o capital (or who are capital sensitive) are forced out.
Overall, there's a net in-flow of startups into SF, and so, the VC's follow.
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#18In the article about Sam Altman stepping down, it mentioned that YC was moving to the city as well. I guess the center of the universe is less and less actually SV.
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#19In the article about Sam Altman stepping down, it mentioned that YC was moving to the city as well. I guess the center of the universe is less and less actually SV.
I think the center of SV is becoming SF actually.
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#20Weren't everybody supposed to start moving to Oakland?