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Is the explanation that Silicon Valley companies invest a lot more in / are better at publicity - best example being Mark Zuckerberg boy genius meme?

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I think it has more to do with the fact that 3 of the 5 most important companies in tech are headquartered there have a combined $2.3T in market cap whereas Boston's biggest tech co's, TripAdvisor, Akamai, and Wayfair, have a combined market cap of ~$30B.

that would do it. So really Boston can't really compare with SV because of that factor of 100 difference.

If you care about those companies, sure.

I'd cut my arm off before working at two of the three and the third would make me think about it pretty hard.

Once you've ruled out the more gross elements of tech...Boston stacks up pretty well.

Many of the large tech companies have offices in Boston/Cambridge. I work at Google Cambridge.

Yes, I know. I consider you extremely poor neighbors.

I'm a random engineer and not a company spokesperson, but still - what did we do?

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