Iyow - in your own words

I’d heard rumors from friends, but had doubted. But it’s definitely back. There’s actually jobs in the Valley. In SF, people are going out in the middle of the week. Ramen rations, almost forgotten.

Talk of VC, salaries back to where one may have continued on from 2000. This time, it feels less lucky and more hard-won, which is what six years will do. (There is a distinction between hard-won and deserved, but in a dog-eat-dot world, you get what you can get, period.) And there’re actually companies with working business plans and regular profit.

Can the Bay’s flocks of itinerant IT workers catch the dream of another wave? Can the slacker-cum-workaholic twenty-now-thirtysomethings of the last wave get it together and keep a life? Will anything real come out of this, besides a massive wipeout of the stock investments of millions of Americans? Stay Tuned. You know you can’t help it.