Stuart Schultz

“ But at the end of the night, the ‘silicon valley’ question came out. A participant in the audience wanted to know if it was crazy not to do his startup in Silicon Valley. This is what I call the startup hotbed insecurity complex. Deep down inside, every entrepreneur working outside of the bay area worries that they are not as competitive and will not be as successful because they are not in Silicon Valley… To which I responded that the idea that you cannot build an important tech company outside of Silicon Valley is ‘a crock of shit’. ”