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I agree but other than in major central business districts there's only so many places to house thousands of employees such as Google, Facebook, etc. For that reason, I don't think suburban corporate campuses will entirely disappear. Attracting tenants sub 30K square feet (guessing here) I can see this obviously being a big problem.

In the case of Google & Facebook, those employers have adapted and built office campuses to provide all the amenities the article suggested to stay competitive in a suburban setting.

I do agree with your statement but it is also complementing what the article is also suggesting should happen to office parks.

This isn't really a new thing though. The company I worked for in the late 80s/90s had a suburban campus and it had multiple cafeterias as well as other things that matter less today (cleaner, ATM, travel agent, insurance office, etc.). If a company in an isolated suburban office park doesn't provide services needed on a typical day, bad on them. But the basic idea isn't especially new.

I suppose if San Franscisco allowed it, Google and Facebook would build skyscrapers in the same vein as the banks in London around Canary Wharf.

Or buildings like Google is building in London http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2950181/Google-scrap...

I find it slightly amusing when journalists call companies like Dollar Shave Club an "upstart". It paints this picture that they're this small scrappy startup when in fact they've raised $163M, founded in 2011 and air prime time commercials. But as compared to P&G's market cap of $220B, I get it, they're small potatoes.

The fund is a great play for Slack to become the next enterprise app store. A welcome alternate to the Salesforce AppExchange IMO.

Interesting idea. I love the thought of integrating everything over to a text chat interface as opposed to salesforce's godawful web UI.

I really like! I'm imagining, say accounting integrations which are cryptographically signed by the accounting software and go into a channel.

I bet I'll be paying for an enterprise inside-the-firewall version of slack in the next few years, or wrestling with some competitor that's not quite as good, one way or the other.

"Just shut up and take my money" - every investor

Thiel joining makes YC look like the 1992 Olympics "Dream Team" compared to all of the other accelerators.

Taking a contrarian viewpoint. Does the convergence of all talent into one team actually reduce the innovation in the startup ecosystem. Similar to your sports analogy, the best games result when multiple talented teams fight it out. If all startups that become big are YC-funded, then we might see just the YC-influenced style of running a company whereas other models may not see the light of the day.

That's because sports are inherently competitive endeavors. This isn't necessarily true of startup investing.

What? From my experience startup investing is ruthlessly competitive. Every VC backed startup I have worked at had competitors funded by other VCs.

But it's not competitive in the same way sports are. If you're a basketball team, you only succeed by beating other basketball teams. If you're an investor, beating other investors isn't the definition of your job. It might happen incidentally, but not by definition.

Andreessen Horowitz should shake things up and launch an accelerator of their own.

99% joking, but they have a big enough brand that it would be interesting, at least.

Not that they'd necessarily want to - they get to pick the best YC graduates and take bigger stakes in them, anyway.

Funny that you make a sports analogy here. I wonder if the partners see themselves as players or coaches. After listening to Scott Kupor from a16z talk, I know that they see themselves as a talent agency rather than being directly involved in the "sport".

Thank god business is more street fight than organized sport.

With the amount of unicorns in 2014 (68) and more coming online, I personally find it difficult to remember that VC isn't the only route to global niche dominance. I hope more entrepreneurs and funders embrace alternate funding sources for "lifestyle companies".

His home page from his Stanford days is pretty sweet, got to love his use of gifs. http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/

“Research on the Web seems to be fashionable these days and I guess I'm no exception. Recently I have been working on the Google search engine with Larry Page.”

This is beyond trippy.

There's this guy Sergey Brin who got a PhD too, he ended up alright. Here's his resume as a student. http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/resume.html

That's completely irrelevant to the OP's current dilemma, unless if you're suggesting that he start his own company. And Sergey Brin actually suspended his PhD studies to work on Google instead, once they realized the potential.

not sure that your comment helps the OP, but that is an amazing resume. Shows the kind of intellect Sergey has.

I think the focus here should be that the escalator to steady job promotions and raises are over. There are too many who can't retire and those that are highly educated and underemployed. We should all be open to an entrepreneurial mindset as this data and others show that this is death of traditional career paths. I myself am drawn to the infinite upside and downside of entrepreneurship over the limited earning decided in the first 10 years of my career.