I do not. People who do not work in tech are being priced out of the area left and right. I'd like to see more startups sprout up in places like Austin, Chicago or better yet Charlotte. Better yet, start a company with remote working being the default from day 1 - makes recruiting the right talent much more straight-forward.

That's what the quote means, though. He saying, that people from many cities are trying to build their own version of Silicon Valley there, with local startup environments.

Personally think a decent chunk of SV is not worth emulating. Hoping to see a new city blaze their own trail w/o the drawbacks of SV (gentrification, 0 work-life balance, ratio of men/women, same people talking about the same topics (e.g. "oh you work in tech, too?! How unique")

I'm always intrigued when I hear about 0 work-life balance in SV. Maybe I've gotten lucky, but I've worked at a small startup (first 10 hires), a medium sized startup (150 people), and a big tech company (10k people) and at all of them I was able to be home by 6pm every day, even with an hour commute, to spend evenings with my family.

The work life balance thing seems to be a made up justification to not be in the valley by people who live outside of it.

Frankly, I find the different reactions to Beirut and Paris sickening. The U.S. (media and residents) cares more about people that are 'more like them'. Too many paint the middle east with a single brush and consider it a disaster not to get upset over unless the issue involves Israel.

I think that's too simple a view.

Paris of recent decades has not experienced frequent terror attacks. It's not expected to happen there. It is not a war zone. There aren't belligerent factions attacking each other. It does not have the sectarian violent history of Beirut.

When ETA was bombing around Spain and it became commonplace, it also received little attention after a while. That's just how it goes.

I'll take the New York Subway system any day over what Boston has (MBTA).

To better clarify, I feel this battle around the spending on NY subways is trivial compared to the fundamental infrastructure issues in other cities (for this example, Boston).

How so? Do you ride the NYC subway? The MTA is more an employment agency than an agency of change. For example, they have been working on the 2nd avenue subway, phase 1 only (a total of 3 stops) since 2007 and it's still not done. Projected completion is now December 2016. This two mile section of track is billions over budget and years behind schedule.

I think there are far too many startups that focus solely on growth/reach. Build a sustainable business: revenue and more importantly gross margin are the key metrics that need to be thought about. While vcs want fast growth, it is often not in the best interest of common stockholders to jet ahead at the paces many of these companies go.