Why this founder left the Bay Area for Portland
Summary
Portland is certainly growing as a national startup hub and one San Francisco founder frustrated with Bay Area scene is making the move north to the Rose City. Tom Dale, who co-founded San Fran-based development startup Tilde.io and created JavaScript framework Ember.js, just penned a blog post titled, “San Francisco, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down.” Dale, who lived in the Bay Area for the past four years, details his reasons for packing up and moving to Portland. Portland offers all of the great restaurants, coffee shops and bars that I love about SF, without having to overhear conversations about Series A rounds or monetization strategies. In the past, it’s been the other way around: Many fast-growing startuppers would flock to the VC-rich places like Bay Area from cities like Seattle (though as Moz CEO Rand Fishkin detailed in a recent post, that’s not always the case). In fact, our GeekWire CEO of the Year Sam Blackman from Elemental Technologies told us that the Rose City is the next great startup mecca.
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