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I don't think SV is SV _because_ it's in CA. I think SV is SV _despite_ being in CA.
by sdp 16y ago
I don't think SV is SV _because_ it's in CA. I think SV is SV _despite_ being in CA.
- _delirium 16y agoPeople have been arguing about it forever, but I think there's at least a relationship. The UC and Cal State systems have been feeders to many tech companies, and during the Valley's formative period, even the private universities were heavily state-subsidized (California used to have an extremely generous CalGrants scholarship that would pay for any CA high-school student with good grades to go to any CA university, public or private).