&gt; Sooner or later the global hub of the computer industry has to shift away from San Francisco to somewhere there&#x27;s actually some goddamn space. That time is now, as evidenced by the ridiculous prices, which are pushing people out. This is a good and natural stage of the process.<p>They&#x27;ve tried.  Several times.  It never works.  As soon as the economy donwnturns, all the non-SV sites get shuttered.  Lather.  Rinse.  Repeat.  And now, people have been through enough iterations to know that non-SV satellite sites are full of crap.<p>The consolidation in the semiconductor industry isn&#x27;t helping, either.<p>However, the solution is rather simple: sustained Series A investment in an area.  This is the key point that drives Silicon Valley--as bad as the Series A situation is in the Valley, it&#x27;s orders of magnitude better than <i>anywhere</i> else.  So, if you funded 50 Series A&#x27;s each year at about $5 million each, you wind up with about 5,000 employees and 500 companies for about $2.5 billion invested over 10 years.<p>Given the lack of Series A in the valley right now, <i>THAT</i> would create a new Silicon Valley.<p>Of course, at that point, the VC&#x27;s in Silicon Valley would finally get off their asses and start funding Series A&#x27;s, so now you are competing with them as they attempt to short circuit your ability to get another Silicon Valley off the ground.<p>So, is someone going to cough up a check for $2.5 billion to be contrary and make the next Silicon Valley?  Or, instead, are they just going to go join the rest in the valley?<p>I know what I would do if I had that kind of money.