Rudy Grahn: "Worse for the entrepreneurial types are the hordes of people in the labor pool who never wanted to work for a startup, and only do so because they see it as their stint in the 'minor leagues' on their way to the bigs. These people don't even have questions like 'Why didn't NYC produce a Google?' on their radar. These are the people who greet such questions with answers like 'WTF?'... At the end of the day, to be in NYC and ask yourself 'How do I get to the top?', your answer is quite likely to involve figuring out how to be "let in" to the top. If you work in a new field, particularly in one that is disruptive to an old field, the odds are that you will eventually find the old guard looking for a way to pull you in... To be in 'The Valley' and ask yourself how to get to the top, I think the culture is such that the answer is far more likely to be 'I will become the top.'... California still thinks of itself as new and a part of a frontier of sorts - if you are going to make it, you are far more likely to have to literally create it. NYC sees itself in time, and places a premium on that which is old, long-established... I think they are less likely to see their own homegrown stuff as legit unless it eventually is somehow integrated into the existing order of things. Without the steely gaze of the suits, it is like you don't exist. That is just not the way things feel out here in the wild wild west."