Former Sequoia partners: The Midwest is the future of startups
The midwest is not the future of startups and will not overtake Silicon Valley in the next 15 years. Yes you can find talent in the midwest but do you think top CS grads from CMU, UIUC, Purdue, etc. want to stay in the midwest after graduating? Think about it.. 22 years old, fresh out of college, after living in the midwest for 4 years...most of them want to come to San Francisco &#x2F; Silicon Valley, the tech center of the world. Also home of all the other famous tech companies they heard of &#x2F; interned for before.<p>Nitpicks from the article:<p>&quot;California is the eighth largest economy in the world. The Midwest is the fifth&quot;<p>really? source on that? What states exactly does that entail?<p>&quot;The Midwest receives 25 percent of all research dollars in America and graduates more computer science degrees than any other region or country on planet earth.&quot;<p>source?<p>&quot;home of the leading computer science school in the world, Carnegie Mellon&quot;<p>Not one of the leading, but THE leading CS school. Even better than MIT? Better than Berkeley? Better than Caltech? I&#x27;m not saying any one of those is THE best, but I would argue they are all top-notch.