On: The Ongoing Battle: NY vs. SF Tech Scene

[rayiner]

I hate to say anything good about SF, but frankly only people in the NYC tech scene think they're in competition with SF. I doubt people in SF think much about the tech scene in NYC.

[rml → rayiner]

I work at a large tech co. in NYC, and we don't really talk about being in competition with SF at all. Besides, many of the really big SF-based cos. have offices here anyway.

[seiji → rml]

Google spent a few billion dollars to buy an office building: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/03/nyregion/03building.html?_... (they later expanded it for even more).

eBay's 6th Ave office costs $2-3 million per month (what's a million dollars between friends?).

(This isn't really relevant though. I just like reminding people huge sums of money are in play. Your little "$50k to $200k angel round" isn't as big a deal as you think.)

[bennyg → seiji]

Damn, what if the 200k angel round leads to a billion or two dollars? I feel like your last line is totally irrelevant.

[seiji → bennyg]

Meta irrelevancy.

[jbarrec → seiji]

I was just at the Google office in NYC last week. They have a great space!

[jrs99 → rayiner]

only bloomberg thinks about competition with SF.