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Living Maps: Bay Area tech since 1960s

7 points tudell 4 hours ago 6 comments

tusmaaa 4 hours ago | parent

huh did not realize how empty San Francisco was off tech itself until the mid 2010's almost

heard there was a lot more finance / creative industry here, have they left or just been crowded by tech?

tudell 3 hours ago | parent

might be a mix of both honestly, I think finance consolidated alot more in New York

sambejk 3 hours ago | parent

Most of the finance and legal firms are still there. Guess tech companies also need lawyers and investment bankers.

pknomad 2 hours ago | parent

Finance pivoted away from commercial banking to VC and fintech and creative got gentrified.

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.

jjav 2 hours ago | parent

> 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.

jedberg 1 hour ago | parent

Most of the finance companies left for more tax friendly states. In the early 2000s, SF had two rush hours. One around 5:30am and another at the normal 8/9am. The 5:30 rush was all the finance people getting from Walnut Creek to SF to be there by the market open at 6:30am.