Originally Posted by
Kacee
Except you've just excluded Palo Alto, which is generally understood to be the birthplace of "the Silicon Valley."
Okay, good point. I can't dispute that Silicon Valley can ostensibly mean the Bay Area, including the entire Peninsula all the way into downtown San Francisco. But on a weighted scale of tech firms, past and present, my perception is that the center of gravity is still closer to San Jose. Some of the higher profile companies and their HQs: Google (Mountain View), Apple (Cupertino), Yahoo (Sunnyvale), AMD (Sunnyvale), Nvidia (Santa Clara), Intel (Santa Clara), Adobe (San Jose), Western Digital (San Jose)... Nevertheless, even with those companies near SJC, I think we agree that SFO is the more convenient and preferred.