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Re:Secondary shops flooded with unicorn sellers by superuser2 on Saturday February 20, 2016 @05:48PM (#11142341)
What? Where are people going to get the money to pay higher/equivalent salaries if not funding?

The non-tech sector seems perfectly content to pay engineers 60k under constant threat of outsourcing. In the absence of Silicon Valley competing for talent they'll get away with less, not more.

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Re:Secondary shops flooded with unicorn sellers by phamilton on Saturday February 20, 2016 @06:33PM (#11142490)
Silicon Valley won't disappear.

Google/Facebook/Apple/Microsoft/etc have been and will continue competing for talent. 2005 to 2009 was hardly a time of "easy money", yet the big tech companies still had to resort to collusion to combat demand for engineers.

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Re:Secondary shops flooded with unicorn sellers by superuser2 on Saturday February 20, 2016 @10:52PM (#11143223)
What? 2006 was the heyday of Rails and the gazillions of startups built on it.
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Re:Secondary shops flooded with unicorn sellers by phamilton on Saturday February 20, 2016 @11:22PM (#11143286)
Yes, but not the hayday of crazy series D rounds.

EDIT: Easy data point, YCombinator was only a 20k investment back then. Very different story of access to funding.

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