I'm a big fan of pg's essays. From my pov, it was the "golden age" of blogging^. Essays like "black swan farming," "high res-society" were fascinating, and tied abstract ideas aabout startups, investing and the world to the parcticalities of how YC works. I found it fascinating.
PG did address startup hubs, why "YC of _place_" was a problematice idea and other reasons why YC is centralized where it is.
But... PG wrote about a lot of ideas. Some might lead you to the opposite conclusion, maybe increasingly as the startup industry has grown.
Ramen profitable, for example, could be a totally different proposition in India. "High resolution" is an idea that I think at some scale needs to happen outside of SV.
Since those essays, YC has scaled. That could put new possibilities on the table. Many of the reasons startups hub are fixable with scale.
I realize this is just interviews, but I reckon that "just" is not just a just.
^Another great example was joel on software and the stack overflow podcast. You could watch Joel and Jeff's abstract ideas about (eg) "social user interface" and such be implmented in software.
My own experience across the visa spectrum is some want to move here permanently, some want to make their stake here and return back to their home country, some want to come here and build new businesses.
I don’t mean it as A discussion about immigration but more about one of innovation.
We keep hearing, despite obvious growth in other regions, SV is still ground zero for new companies.
Then there's getting an EB-1 approved ... I don't how you managed to get it, but kudos to you on that. From what I've read, it's incredibly difficult, and usually an order of magnitude more difficult than getting an O-1. Immigration guides often say you need win the Nobel Prize in order to qualify for it. But I've also heard luck plays a huge factor -- in terms of who your adjudicating officer is. Anyways, there's very little info out there (on the interwebs) that talks about how to succeed with an O-1 or EB-1 application. (It would be great if you could write about it.)
part political climate, part living cost in sf/bay, part network becoming more global etc
[0] https://trak.in/india-startup-funding-investment-2015/ (URL says 2015, but the data is latest)
Imho, to make most out of YC demo day, you'd have to have something concrete ready, and so it helps to have started working before having interviewed with YC.
Not everyone is supposed to talk about the big problems like climate change all the time. That's kind of boring.
My two cents though.
Even in India people would probably say "Rome" instead of "Roma", "Moscow" instead of "Moskvá".
And it's not only in English, Italian would say "Tolosa" instead of "Toulouse", German would say "Mailand" instead of "Milan", French would say "Cracovie" instead of "Kraków" an so on...
Also, I think this is unrealistic. Do you expect others to properly use the names of all cities ? For example : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozhikode. The 'zh' sound is not present outside of a few South Indian languages. It is OK if others call it Calicut IMO
EDIT: It seems the OP has edited the comment to make it more polite. Thanks OP.
Putting my personal opinion aside, it's definitely not catching on: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=Bengaluru,bangalo...
I still call it Bangalore in any formal setting.
It is a relic of colonization that is worth leaving behind. This battle is completely worth fighting. If Ireland officially lists Dublin as Baile Atha Cliath for addresses, the airport, and for international English references, I will use that. This is not about two different languages, but of erasure.
However, they should probably at least correct the "Banglore" misspellings in the FAQ.
Bangalore: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=IN-KA&q=bangalo...
Bengaluru: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=IN-KA&q=bengalu...
Bangalore: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=IN-KA&...
Bengaluru: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=IN-KA&...
This is a post-colonial battle still being fought, and India's wish to shed its colonial shackles deserves to be respected.
(Even closer to home, do you say 'naaii dillii'?)
