It made me wonder: why does Seattle’s tech culture feel so optimized for W2/RSUs/stability, while the Bay feels wired for risk-taking and possibility?
Is it just my experience, or have others noticed the same cultural gap?
It made me wonder: why does Seattle’s tech culture feel so optimized for W2/RSUs/stability, while the Bay feels wired for risk-taking and possibility?
Is it just my experience, or have others noticed the same cultural gap?
If you're building anywhere else, I think you have to be more active in curating who you surround yourself with. Most other people are on salaries building/supporting businesses that are proven with low risk, so their mindset to life is quite different. There are risk takers in any city, but it takes more effort to find them.
When I worked in VC, I really enjoyed talking to builders from "unlikely" places, middle of nowhere Kansas, Atlantic Canada etc. They had to overcome much more social resistance to work on their ideas.
stathibus•5mo ago