Tech jobs != Silicon Valley
The jobs may come (_may_), but they won't be the same jobs you get in the valley. They will be the backroom, grunt jobs that companies want to make cheaper - cost centers. Profit centers will stay on the coasts.
The Next Silicon Valley Will Be in the US Heartland: Steve Case
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#12If I had a dollar for every article about "the next silicon valley", I would be a VC myself by now...
Agreed. There’s a local area where some type of people refer to it as SV. It’s really bunch of satellite sales offices trying to hype things up.
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#13If you make a location unlivable, people won't live there in the future. Conversely if there's a place that people visit for vacations, people will live there in the future.
Both of those statements are true of Venice.
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#14I think people need to understand the history of Silicon Valley to see why you need an ethos that comes from individuals Not just a cluster of tech companies and VCs, which is already a high bar An area needs a concentration of people made wealthy there, who have to be interested in becoming VCs right there. the state needs the same unenforceability of noncompete laws as california at a bare minimum. dumb things have…
You also need a culture of supporting non-conformists.
A culture where children are socialized into believing that things must only be done in a certain way because that's how it's always been done and doing it differently not just makes you immoral but makes you a bad person will invariably reduce the number of kids who will grow up trying to "think differently" when solving problems.
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#15You need colleges. You want the next Silicon Valley, pump money into the CS programs of area colleges.
And unfortunately, your best universities are not in the heartland and very few in red states. Silicon Valley has the luxury of educational centers, as well as large tech firms that can be used to seed the area with talent they create and attract. You would be hard pressed to find such a confluence of actors in the heartland.
You can argue the "best" point I guess but there are all the large state schools (which can give a very good education if you seek it out), Purdue, Notre Dame, University of Chicago... But probably more around the great lakes than further south.
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#16It's already in Shenzhen.
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#17I think it's really as simple as having a big company hitting a giant IPO that creates wealthy individuals who go on to invest in smaller up and coming startups. E.g. Seattle has Amazon and Microsoft, Bay Area has Meta, Google, etc.
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#18I selfishly hope that the software industry will continue its geographic diffusion and not be centered in any particular physical place anymore. I think it's possible, under the right conditions, to foster the same culture in virtual spaces, and I hope it happens.
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#19If you make a location unlivable, people won't live there in the future. Conversely if there's a place that people visit for vacations, people will live there in the future.
>Conversely if there's a place that people visit for vacations, people will live there in the future.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/10/venetians-veni...
Re: The Next Silicon Valley Will Be in the US Heartland: Steve Case
#20You need colleges. You want the next Silicon Valley, pump money into the CS programs of area colleges.
And unfortunately, your best universities are not in the heartland and very few in red states. Silicon Valley has the luxury of educational centers, as well as large tech firms that can be used to seed the area with talent they create and attract. You would be hard pressed to find such a confluence of actors in the heartland.
I consider Rice and UT-Austin as two of the best universities in a conservative, red state. But they don't get a lot of respect from coastal elites because they aren't in NYC or SF.