Silicon Alley

Yeah, that's a great question.

I think, I mean, this takes me back to my days being part of the city and the mayor's office when we were thinking deeply about like, yeah, what is New York's role in Silicon Alley? That was the marketing at the time.

But we also internally were like, We don't want to be we don't want to be Silicon Alley like we're our own thing.

And that's the point.

New York is never going to just be a tech town.

And there's a lot of people in there, a lot of companies, so that's fine.

But there's the one zip code, I think it's 10011, which is Silicon Alley, that is just so rich with these tech companies.

Like at the time we work, we were covering like relatively small businesses.

So we work at a $16 billion valuation was a huge outlier.

Sure.

You're actually kind of my favorite kind of journalist, certainly in New York when you had Silicon Alley.

We had OnRamp and ThinkNoIdeas, and we had Agency.com. What were the other companies that were in that business? Razorfish.

Razorfish.

I wish I had an afternoon with you to sit and talk this through because these are huge questions that are hard to answer.

In fact, at the end of this month, I'll be in New York for a reunion 30 years since the start of Silicon Alley.

And I was working for Esther when Silicon Alley blew up, just started and got huge.

It's going to be fun to reminisce, but also I think a little bittersweet to reminisce on all that happened since then.

I think one of the things that happens, and I totally agree with the scenario you just painted, one of the things that happens is we're driven back a little more toward analog.

Mm-hmm

... um, some people call it Silicon Alley.

It's kind of a, a, a startup neighborhood, uh, where a lot of places have offices.

And they offered people free AMH testing, which is a hormone that gives some indication of your ovarian reserve.

But here's where it gets really interesting and where the scope of this methodology truly expands.

This lean approach, these canvases, the MVPs, this isn't just for kids in hoodies hacking away in Silicon Alley garages anymore.

Not even close.

This is one of the most surprising things in the materials.

Well, they have limited experience, but they have funding.

They get all their series funding, and they're doing what happened in 2000, right? Remember what we had with Silicon Alley, with all these firms that got their initial funding, and they're just spending it down.

So what do you see happening in the legal business? Because there have been a lot of mergers and a lot of changes taking place.

There are.