> huh did not realize how empty San Francisco was off tech itself until the mid 2010's almost
Classic "Silicon Valley" did not included San Francisco. SF was a city an hour north of Silicon Valley but never part of it.
I guess by now I'm an "old timer" Silicon Valley-ite (been around here from early-mid-90s), but I still have a cognitive dissonance when thinking SF is in any way part of Silicon Valley. But yes over the last decade+ it surely is.
heard there was a lot more finance / creative industry here, have they left or just been crowded by tech?
You still have the TMT team from Goldman and the likes based in SF but you won’t see them the way you would in NYC.
Classic "Silicon Valley" did not included San Francisco. SF was a city an hour north of Silicon Valley but never part of it.
I guess by now I'm an "old timer" Silicon Valley-ite (been around here from early-mid-90s), but I still have a cognitive dissonance when thinking SF is in any way part of Silicon Valley. But yes over the last decade+ it surely is.