Bay Area

I just moved from sunny Southern California to the Bay Area - and into a nice cozy apartment in Mountain View. I am doing an intern with Yahoo research in their Search and Advertising Sciences team. It has been a fun so far - I've met new and interesting people, made new friends, caught up with old ones and I met a bunch of founders and made good friend with them.

Moving 350 miles north and it feels like I'm in a totally different country. The laid back and the mild traffic conditions of the Bay Area are just a deceptive façade to buzzing business activity that lies underneath. This is a place that seems so placid and yet so active. Exactly, opposite to the high flying and colorful Los Angeles which is alive and yet a bit laid back.

One thing that I find amazing is that I get to walk past and "hang out" so to speak in the same areas across some of the new internet companies and websites that I use and love - be it meebo or SmugMug or Facebook. It is amazing to be walking past offices of internet properties with multi-billion dollar valuations and look at their tiny offices and wonder - "really, thats how big a multi billion dollar company looks?"

All this entrepreneurial activity has infected me in a small way and even for someone who is as risk averse as I am, has led me to ask the question - why not me? But that is for annother day, but till then ..

Signing Off
Vishnu Vyas