What is happening to Silicon Valley with the stock markets being all time high and super high valuations for pre ipo companies.
1.
Snowflake touching 12B which is 3X of the previous valuation.
2.
Uber which had so many issues with respect to profitabilty getting close to its IPO price.
3.
1 Trillion marketcap is the new 100B with companies crossing 1T left right and center.
4.
Snap, Pinterest, Lyft and even Twitter is doing good stock wise.
5.
500K salaries for Software Engineers is the new norm. its like 100K in the past. Entry level SWEs can get 200k plus salaries.
6.
2Million dollar houses are like the 1M dollar houses in the past.
7.
People finding blind more interesting than other social media. They check for notifications, likes and follow high TC post more than FB, Insta, TWTR and other social media.
8.
Leetcode is the new verb of the day like what Google was in the past. “Have you leetcoded that problem”?
I feel we need to make the best use of this period while it lasts as this might be short lived. Who knows?
Any thoughts?
TC 480k, LinkedIn staff
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Real estate in nice areas is a fairly safe investment I think. The people who buy expensive homes in Palo Alto are the kind of people who aren’t going to be hurting too much if valuations come down.