Obviously they will get more attention if they don't rank the SF Bay Area #1 so didn't do so last year ether (but chose Austin -- I've lived there and it's great, but it's small, even if you don't compare it against Dallas or Houston).
There are reasons for preferring to live other places than the Bay Area, but the overwhelming volume of investment, people willing to work for startups, people willing to try out new stuff, and the dense network really put it in a completely different class from NY (which has very dense networks -- perhaps even denser -- in other sectors). There's a lot more to to in NY but if what you care about is tech-tech-tech it's hard to beat the Valley (which I assume is swept into their classification of "SF").
Obviously they will get more attention if they don't rank the SF Bay Area #1 so didn't do so last year ether (but chose Austin -- I've lived there and it's great, but it's small, even if you don't compare it against Dallas or Houston).
There are reasons for preferring to live other places than the Bay Area, but the overwhelming volume of investment, people willing to work for startups, people willing to try out new stuff, and the dense network really put it in a completely different class from NY (which has very dense networks -- perhaps even denser -- in other sectors). There's a lot more to to in NY but if what you care about is tech-tech-tech it's hard to beat the Valley (which I assume is swept into their classification of "SF").