On: Secondary shops flooded with unicorn sellers

[phamilton]

Silicon Valley won't disappear.

Google/Facebook/Apple/Microsoft/etc have been and will continue competing for talent. 2005 to 2009 was hardly a time of "easy money", yet the big tech companies still had to resort to collusion to combat demand for engineers.

[superuser2 → phamilton]

What? 2006 was the heyday of Rails and the gazillions of startups built on it.

[phamilton → superuser2]

Yes, but not the hayday of crazy series D rounds.

EDIT: Easy data point, YCombinator was only a 20k investment back then. Very different story of access to funding.