C100, Facebook, and the Valley: Bittersweet.

I had a great opportunity to participate with thec100.org over the past two days as they ran their fourth "48 hours in the Valley" program.

We had a great showing of Canadian Facebook employees on a panel this morning, and covered topics from how to best engage with Facebook, to the culture of both Facebook and the Valley.

One question from the audience was "what would it take for you to come back to Canada?" And the answer was uniformly "I won't." The reasons had nothing to do with Canada (someone mentioned that they would not go LA or anywhere else either), but had everything to do with the unique appeal, energy, and community in the Valley for anyone in tech.

The bittersweet part of this was: I agree. I would love to head back to Canada - it is home. But, I won't. The advantages of being here in the Valley (much more obvious to me now that I am at Mozilla) are just too strong. Sigh.

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