What Every Startup-Friendly City Needs (Hint: It’s Not Google Buses)
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The Google bus has become a symbol of the dual-class system forming between San Francisco’s tech elite and everyone else. Just this week, venture capitalists Chamath Palihapitiya and Ron Conway got into a fiery debate at Bloomberg’s Next Big Thing Summit over whether Silicon Valley and City Hall have been complacent in the growing income inequality.
This is the kind of problem most cities would kill for. Dozens of mayors around the world are trying to figure out how to attract tech companies and deliver a surge to their economies. One of the few places that has pulled this off is Tel Aviv.