Seed-stage startups are so mobile that it doesn't matter too much where YC itself takes place, so long as they get to demo to investors in the biggest markets.
Also, though SV has the most investors, Boston probably has the highest volume of hackers flowing out of its universities.
Robert is a professor at MIT and is not moving in the immediate future.
But I would want to have one foot in Cambridge even if it weren't for Robert. Cambridge is smarter than SV. The smart world and the startup world are adjacent, but not identical. We'd rather be half in the smart world and half in the startup world than just in the startup world all the time.
Also, though SV has the most investors, Boston probably has the highest volume of hackers flowing out of its universities.
Robert is a professor at MIT and is not moving in the immediate future.
But I would want to have one foot in Cambridge even if it weren't for Robert. Cambridge is smarter than SV. The smart world and the startup world are adjacent, but not identical. We'd rather be half in the smart world and half in the startup world than just in the startup world all the time.