The Email Caste's Last Stand

Re:The Email Caste's Last Stand by yumraj on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @01:07PM (#33522126)

First of all Twitter is SF based, and is NOT a Silicon Valley company. It's frustrating how many people get this wrong, and most of the times when it suites a particular narrative.

Secondly: Not to say that Twitter, or other tech firms, don't have a bunch of people who are not very productive/contributing - but is this a problem unique to tech companies and not every other company that grows beyond a point?

Are pharma companies, car manufacturers, utilities, CPG, etc etc all running a perfectly well oiled machinery. Or, is it just that the people who have been on the outside looking in with jealousy suddenly get to vent their rage during times of such correction since it gets them eyeballs.

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Re:The Email Caste's Last Stand by mrcrumb1 on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @01:09PM (#33522141)

I mean you can die on that hill, but I'd hazard a guess that nearly everyone considers SF a part of Silicon Valley

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Re:The Email Caste's Last Stand by yumraj on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @01:20PM (#33522315)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley

> I mean you can die on that hill, but I'd hazard a guess that nearly everyone considers SF a part of Silicon Valley

Well, unless you're from the SF Bay Area (or just Bay Area). SF is a city. SF Bay Area (or just Bay Area) is a broad region. Silicon Valley is San Jose, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Redwood City, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Cupertino.

Also: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=SF+vs+silicon+valley&ia=web

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Re:The Email Caste's Last Stand by InsaneOstrich on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @01:15PM (#33522241)

I've always thought that "Silicon Valley" was just a broad term that described tech companies anywhere in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Re:The Email Caste's Last Stand by yamtaddle on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @01:40PM (#33522595)

IDK about elsewhere but East of the Rockies, at least, yes, they're basically used interchangeably in many contexts and nobody cares that a "Silicon Valley" story may in fact be about a company based a few miles from actual Silicon Valley. Sorta like how nobody outside New York cares about the distinction between the boroughs except maybe Manhattan, so including or excluding that information, versus just calling it all "New York", makes no difference to them (/us). In fact I bet a lot of folks think "Manhattan" and "New York (City)" are perfect synonyms, and really, it doesn't much matter that they do.

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Re:The Email Caste's Last Stand by pmoriarty on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @01:23PM (#33522352)

That's a common misapprehension among people that don't live there.

For anyone in the Bay Area, Silicon Valley is some ways south of San Francisco.

That said, a lot of startups are in SF, because Silicon Valley is too expensive (though SF itself is catching up because of the second dot com boom/bubble), so it's not surprising that outsiders lump the two of them together as a hub of Bay Area tech activity (which they are.. but they're just two distinct geographical areas).

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Re:The Email Caste's Last Stand by jklinger410 on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @01:23PM (#33522363)

It is.

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