10 Feb 2009
Twitter is the hot web company right now. Its employees are pretty much the only people still reliving the old dot-com days. And yet they’re not. They’re more focused, more idealistic, more … San Francisco. Stone calls focusing on money, rather than the established goal of changing the world, “a New York thing.” They don’t care about money in the Bay Area? And we like to change the world here too, right? Well, maybe we used to.
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Are the Creators of Twitter Living in the Last Dreamworld on Earth? — New York Magazine
OK, I know I’m late reading this (I like to read my NY Mag in print — and yes, I subscribe), but is this NY/San Fran distinction real?
I’ve only lived here in “the city” so I can’t say, but would be interested in what bi-coastal folks have experienced.
Who says you can’t save the world and make money, anyway?
