Tech entrepreneurs who left the Bay Area during the pandemic are returning, saying they can't miss out on the funding, hackathons, and networking of the AI boom
Tech entrepreneurs who left the Bay Area during the pandemic say they can't afford to miss out on the funding … Bluesky: @darthbluesky.bsky.social . Mastodon: @BruceHalperin@sfba.social . Tweets: @tomgara , @anildash , @nifferkin , @halsinger , @ceciliakang , @berkeleyhaas , @nifferkin , and @producercities Bluesky: @darthbluesky.bsky.social : no takebacks — i do not make the rules Mastodon: @BruceHalperin@sfba.social : @Techmeme Guess Miami didn't work out, huh? Tweets: Tom Gara / @tomgara : SF is back and you love to see it etc, but I'm still just horrified that people have embraced the term “Cerebral Valley” https://www.nytimes.com/... @anildash : These folks were always lying, always trying to push their political agenda at the expense of cities like SF, and always insulated by their wealth from the harms they caused. Of course they came crawling back. https://twitter.com/... Jen Yip / @nifferkin : 5/ Thank you to @eringriffith for the mention in her @nytimes piece on why the AI Boom is bringing so many people back to SF PS. I am so excited to have @DougFulop back in town! https://www.nytimes.com/... Hal Singer / @halsinger : Full story is here. I commend you to read it. It reflects a potent strain among libertarians that there is no problem that can't be solved by innovation, leaving zero role for government. https://www.nytimes.com/... Cecilia Kang / @ceciliakang : They're baaack. Never doubt the lure of SF - @eringriffith on the boomerang techies coming back to the Bay Area for the A.I. gold rush https://www.nytimes.com/... @berkeleyhaas : A pair of tech entrepreneurs are now on their way back to the Bay Area from Oregon, driven by a key development: the artificial intelligence boom. @nytimes @eringriffith https://www.nytimes.com/... Jen Yip / @nifferkin : 1/ SF is back, but I never left. I've organized an AI/robotics community in SF for 6 years and hosted Founders You Should Know for 3 years. Three reasons why SF is particularly fertile ground for new tech ideas: 1. Serendipity 2. Enablers 3. Speed [image] Jim Russell / @producercities : They tried to make it work in Bend [Oregon], but after too many 8-hour drives to San Francisco for hackathons, networking events & meetings, they decided to move back: “The A.I. boom has brought the energy back into the Bay that was lost during Covid” https://www.nytimes.com/...