Fourth unpopular take: without it Silicon Valley wouldn’t exist.

SV exists thanks to CA's lack of non-competes and the Stanford and UC Berkeley innovation ecosystem.

Otherwise, Boston, NYC, DMV, Seattle, Austin, Dallas, Houston, Chicago, and others all could have become the next Silicon Valley.

	▲	paleotrope 3 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		That's interesting because it's way more complicated than that. Boston had the 128 loop and Digital. TI in dallas. Simi valley. I think it's more like the end of defense spending in the late 80s early 90s winnowed down the several "SV"s into only one.