San Francisco Tech Firms See Workers Flee from $4,500 Rents

Re:San Francisco Tech Firms See Workers Flee from $4,500 Rents by stouset on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @02:55AM (#11437108)

Of the top 25, only two American companies are not in the Bay Area, and one of those is still in California.

For an area with less than 2% of the country's population, that is overwhelmingly dominant. I'm not sure if you could have underscored my point any more succinctly.

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Re:San Francisco Tech Firms See Workers Flee from $4,500 Rents by thedufer on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @09:01AM (#11438441)

Somehow you've managed to miscount the numbers, misrepresent your wrong numbers, and miss the point all at once.

The point is that you still have contributed no idea of what portion of startups are starting in SF. If 95% of startups come out of SF but only 80% of winners do, it still has an overwhelming majority but is by the numbers a terrible place to start a startup.

Of the top 25 international, only about half are American, so stop pretending the denominator is 25 if you've decided that international companies for some reason don't count. There are 2 in LA, one in Boston, and 1 in NYC (what list are you looking at?), giving the Bay Area something like 2/3 of American companies, and about 1/3 of all.

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