VC laments San Francisco networking devolved from commerce-plus-culture into pure commerce
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-10-23
Investor Stewart Alsop reflects that SF networking in the early 2010s had the perfect mix of commerce and culture — and that today it's just commerce. He argues the vibe is nearly impossible to recreate offline now, surviving only online or in niche sub-groups, noting that Buenos Aires has a lot of them.
A brief but telling observation on how Silicon Valley social culture has shifted.
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