Andreessen Horowitz is opening an office in SF

Post by Judgmentality » Tue, Mar 12, 2019, 2:21 AM UTC

dmode wrote: post #79

It is surreal to commute and work in SF. I take BART or Caltrain to work and amazed every day to see hundreds of thousands of engineers, product managers, sales people, data scientists get off in Embarcadero and walk to their destination. If you are in tech, it is incredibly energetic. I play “backpack bingo”, where I try to identify someone’s employer from their backpack

Post by chx » Tue, Mar 12, 2019, 3:01 AM UTC

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It's well known a16z guys will immediate ban anyone on Twitter the moment for ... anything. I am not talking of trolling, abuse -- just polite disagreement, instant ban. Never seen any other organization doing similar and so consistently.

How a16z manages their social media doesn't seem very relevant to founders who are deciding on VCs. Could you clarify if you disagree?

Post by repsilat » Tue, Mar 12, 2019, 3:16 AM UTC

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Every body wants to cash out before boomers leave equity markets and move into T-bills.

Forgive my ignorance, what's "T-bills" ?

Post by AVTizzle » Tue, Mar 12, 2019, 3:47 AM UTC

Judgmentality wrote: post #91

dmode wrote: post #79

It is surreal to commute and work in SF. I take BART or Caltrain to work and amazed every day to see hundreds of thousands of engineers, product managers, sales people, data scientists get off in Embarcadero and walk to their destination. If you are in tech, it is incredibly energetic. I play “backpack bingo”, where I try to identify someone’s employer from their backpack

> If you are in tech, it is incredibly energetic. I've never understood this. I'd like to be surrounded by people that don't all do the same thing as me. I want to meet new and interesting people, not expand the bubble around me. I already interact with everyone at work most of my day, now I have to interact with people that fit that mold even when I'm not working? Different strokes for different folks, but SF has al…

Post by grogenaut » Tue, Mar 12, 2019, 4:14 AM UTC

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Back in the day, the name Silicon Valley came from the fact that most of the companies worked with actual silicon. Most of them were based near Mt. View because 1) The land was a lot cheaper than SF and 2) Most of the capital was there. The "new" SV is north because all the consumer websites set up shop in SF since all they needed was office and not chip fabs, and they were mostly being worked on by younger folks who…

Facebook, Google, Apple, Yahoo, Adobe, Intuit, and Microsoft & Amazon's Bay Area offices are all in SV. I'd really divide it by era. Anything founded before 2005 is in Silicon Valley; after that is in San Francisco. I actually think YCombinator is a big driver of that; they funded younger startup founders (largely Millenials rather than Gen-Xers) who wanted to live in the city.