I lived in the south SF bay from 1985 to 2004. Things were already changing by the time I left, but it strange to hear SF being a tech center. Sure, tech workers loved visiting SF for food and culture, and some loved it enough to move there and put up with the daily commute south. Back then there were a few tech companies and tech-serving creatives (ad agencies and such), it wasn't a tech hub.
My guess is that this shift occurred in unison from the shift away from hardware startups (requiring deep-pocketed investors) to the current game of funding hundreds of small software/web startups and hoping one of them makes it big enough to pay for the losses of all the others.
Note I'm not saying the good old days were better or worse, just different.
My guess is that this shift occurred in unison from the shift away from hardware startups (requiring deep-pocketed investors) to the current game of funding hundreds of small software/web startups and hoping one of them makes it big enough to pay for the losses of all the others.
Note I'm not saying the good old days were better or worse, just different.