Exactly. Silicon Valley as we knew it is over; that time and place is gone. But the spirit lives on. Decentralized, stronger, more international, more ambitious, and much harder to stop.
There was a special combination of optimism, excitement, camaraderie, exploration, frontier, speed, and knowing a shared secret that existed in the startup community of 2005-2012.
It has been dormant for a long time.
Nice to see it again in the web3 community.