Every company in the world worth more than $1 trillion was founded on the US west coast, including Saudi Aramco which was started in the same building as here in San Francisco.
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All but Amazon were founded in the Bay Area. It must be something in the water.
Aramco once stood for Arabian American Oil company, created by Standard Oil of California (now Chevron). Their HQ building was 225 Bush Street which once had a coworking space where I started Flexport.
Actually meta was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Microsoft was founded in New Mexico.
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Our old office at Astranis was the first office of Instacart ($12B).
Our new office was formerly Uber ($150B).
The repercussions of that much success are also fairly apparent. If only the ethos that created those companies translated to governance. Instead, people assuage their guilt through bad voting.
We learned not long ago that when we had an office in the Empire State Building during the first generation of our current 4th generation business that what would ultimately become Marvel comics was conceived down the hall from our office on the 14th floor.
Wild!
Meta founded in Cambridge.
Buffets Berkshire - not the textile company - founded in Omaha.
Aramco and SOCAL signed an agreement in California, but SOCAL was a Standard Oil interest. Standard Oil was founded in Ohio.
West Coast built the blueprint for trillion-dollar giants—capital, tech, and network effects all in one. Question is, can other regions replicate that or is it a one-off phenomenon?
Saw some containers stacked up five high on my drive over the bay bridge the other day (I live in Oakland now).
Thought of your thread like what, a year and a half ago?
Microsoft was founded in Albuquerque and Facebook in Boston.
They moved West pretty quick though.
Think this is worse for the anti-West coast arguments.
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Similarly Hollywood was founded on the west coast despite the film industry starting with Edison on the East
May be this is better way to put it more accurately?
"Every trillion dollar company is HQ'd in west coast or started(Saudi Aramco) in west coast".
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Answers most of the questions
Also notable is that Getty Oil in Los Angeles, California taught the Saudis how to drill
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Meta was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Saudi Aramco was founded Dhahran, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
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let’s move you from the internet to the US west coast.
Flexport’s SF office has such a cute aesthetic I love it. It’s in SF’s flatiron which is quite dope - it’s a 100+ year old which also housed Credit Karma and Medium.
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Where do people come up with the “saudis are the richest ever, they are trillionaires behind closed doors” idea exactly?
How do we explain that many of the founders who started these trillion $ companies came from the east coast?
And they all left or are leaving the West Coast.
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What was the reason that you guys decided to get into that building as it because Aramco has started there or more operationally convenient?
That’s a wild fact. But also, one representative of a time that is passed. Present west coast < past west coast. The Great Plains of America may be the future of these companies. Or mars
Not true (Meta and Microsoft), but I think it is true if you amend it to say that they were either founded on the US west coast or by at least one Harvard dropout
“We go eastward to realize history and study the works of art and literature…we go westward as into the future, with a spirit of enterprise and adventure.”
Being ranked in the top 100 of unicorn companies must feel like a real achievement especially when there are only 1549 globally that can say that in their seed funding rounds! 
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Is this not just a point in time argument? If you go back to the 70s, 80s, 90s and look at highest valued companies would the geo distribution skew?
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