The Economist did a great piece on Silicon Valley a couple of weeks ago and along with the article they posted an excellent interactive map on their website.
The map shows the geographic location of lots of companies based in Silicon Valley and the size of the bubble (no pun intended) is the value of the company.
Sometimes a map like the one above can tell such an interesting story, this one being the story of the world’s biggest cluster of tech companies. The map shows Apple, Facebook, Google, Airbnb, Dropbox, Electronic Arts, LinkedIn, PayPal, Adobe, EBay, Netflix, Salesforce.com, Twitter and Stripe to name but a few – all located within a 30 minute drive of one another.
It looks like a very exciting place to be for a tech founder. But it also looks like a place where it’s hard to find development talent to work on your startup without paying through the nose. The map also has a “play” button that shows how the companies have evolved from the start of the Silicon Valley ecosystem. Check it out and click “play”.
