20 2 / 2012
What happens when the Mafia goes home?
I have just been following a Twitter conversation by two of my friends - Semil Shah & Jason Putorti…
@semil …and don’t forget when Facebook vesting cliff hits. Explosion of new companies and talent on the market.
@putorti yep, w/ Quora, Path, Asana + all the angels/VCs already in place, that mafia will just grow & grow in power.
In Silicon Valley, there are mafias- the early employees from successful companies (ex. Paypal, Google, & Facebook) that became incredibly wealthy. These are some of the most respected and intelligent people in the valley. Many remain in the area to start their own venture, become a VC, or advisor to other startups.
However there have to be some that took their money, left the valley, and went home (ex. China & India). Are there any Americans that have left the valley to return to middle America?
What happened when they took their new found wealth, knowledge, and experience, and applied it to their homelands? Did they succeed? Fail?
With the norm in Silicon Valley being so radically different from the rest of the world, I am just wondering if there are stories of this business culture taking root elsewhere. In small pockets around the world. Places that aren’t consumed with tech news & vesting schedules.
