“Nobody talks about Silicon Alley anymore; it’s just tech,” said attendee Stephen Messer, who co-founded LinkShare with his sister Heidi in New York in 1996, sold it to Rakuken for $425 million in 2005, and later co-founded Collective[i], an enterprise AI firm that operates on both coasts. “New York’s tech scene is so large now that there’s no center.”
30 years after the founding of ‘Silicon Alley,’ New York’s tech scene is so big it has no center
