Interesting!<p>I'm a big fan of pg's essays. From my pov, it was the "golden age" of blogging^. Essays like "black swan farming," "high res-society" were fascinating, and tied abstract ideas aabout startups, investing and the world to the parcticalities of how YC works. I found it fascinating.<p>PG did address startup hubs, why "YC of _place_" was a problematice idea and other reasons why YC is centralized where it is.<p>But... PG wrote about a lot of ideas. Some might lead you to the opposite conclusion, maybe increasingly as the startup industry has grown.<p>Ramen profitable, for example, could be a totally different proposition in India. "High resolution" is an idea that I think at some scale needs to happen outside of SV.<p>Since those essays, YC has scaled. That could put new possibilities on the table. Many of the reasons startups hub are fixable with scale.<p>I realize this is just interviews, but I reckon that "just" is not just a just.<p>^Another great example was joel on software and the stack overflow podcast. You could watch Joel and Jeff's abstract ideas about (eg) "social user interface" and such be implmented in software.