On a sunny afternoon in early June, I ask a few Silicon Valley tech workers in downtown Palo Alto what they picture when they think of Nebraska.
“Corn,” says a 26 year-old Python coder in an a16z t-shirt. “Just corn everywhere.”
“Tractors… farms… cows,” offers his friend. “And yeah, um, corn.”
In the San Francisco Bay Area — the global mecca for technology, innovation, and venture capital money — the Midwest doesn’t seem to get much love on the streets. After all, this is where the computer chip was born.
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