You don’t understand the valley culture. I’ve been here for over 25 years and nobody here cares about that. Do you know why? Because we’ll simply “start over”. That’s the “risk” thing that the article is talking about. We’re all risk takers. We have the mentality that if it fails, so what? We’ll do it again. If earthquakes destroys the valley, so what? We’ll rebuild. You can’t find that kind of mentality anywhere else. And that is what makes silicon valley.

I have been saying for a while now that this is the flaw in the Silicon Valley business plans. Just because the next “big one” has not hit does not mean it is not going to. Silicon Valley is probably more transient due to this fact. Although they have Stanford, which indeed injects talent into the local ecosystem, other areas are probably similarly well placed to take over.

Silicon Valley is a bubble. The day the next big one hits, a lot of important human and infrastructure resources are going to be critically affected. It is just a matter of time and many startups and established businesses have Single Points of Failure in the valley.

I have been following your Silicon Valley updates and have them quite interesting, thanks.