New York vs. Silicon Valley

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Washington DC is the United States Capital, and New York is the capital of many things — the arts, fashion, banking and finance, media, and more. Los Angeles is the capital of film and entertainment. Palo Alto is the capital of Silicon Valley, which is the global capital of technology and venture capital firms.

New York and Los Angeles have for decades enjoyed a brother-sister bi-coastal relationship, between them soaking up 99% of America’s x-factor juice into a monopoly of cool.

The geeks in Silicon Valley started moving from tiny minority of super wealthy weirdos to a tidal wave of socially awkward, stratospherically wealthy, insecure and on-the-spectrum Burning Man weirdos. The LA-NY axis of cool didn’t quite know how to deal with these bros, but it was soon clear they could not be ignored.

Netflix became the torpedo that would punch a gaping hole in Hollywood’s side, showing the world how sleepy the actors, writers and producers had been, failing to see a new way to enthrall audiences at home, 24x7.

Facebook and Google destroyed New York’s dominance in advertising, not death by a…