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Lol did he really claim that SV wasn't about making money? That's rich.

Not if you go by the parent comment instead of what your brain translated it to.

> And that NYC was too tainted by its banking culture and the drive to make money.

Doesn't this imply fairly clearly that he believes the Bay Area is not plagued by these two things?

It implies he thinks it's less of a thing there than in New York.