[looseyesterday]

I think like most things the internet 'ate' SF now you can work remote and most importantly start new companies remotely. OFC scale, capital and in-person still matter, but Australia, UK, Germany, Spain, all now have significant tech hubs, with VC scale capital, decent talent pipelines and same access as everyone else. Its only a matter of time over the next few cycles as more and more future 'big tech' comes from elsewhere in the world.

[ExpertAdvisor01]

Hard disagree . They might be good as incubators, but no one comes close to the us in terms of scaling and access to capital.

[TheOtherHobbes]

"Access to capital" meaning "Forced to work on MBA-infected bullshit because that's all that gets funded."

I suspect the answer is a bootstrap economy - small businesses that are actually small, growing sustainably but not trying to be unicorns, freezing out the VC clown show as a matter of policy.

It's not as if there aren't plenty of pain points that could do with fixing outside of web/social marketing and corporate colonisation.

[cultofmetatron]

> I think like most things the internet 'ate' SF now you can work remote and most importantly start new companies remotely.

Absolutly. I used to work in SF. My startup is remote and we operate in europe. slack + regular meetups is all we need.