I got a new job in SV in 2008 as well. People were congratulating me that I managed to get "an" offer. Lots of places had hiring freezes back then. When did things change in the valley? Was it Q4 2010? Q1 2011? I'm genuinely curious and trying to refresh my memory. I feel like I was in a funk and then woke up one day with all this Unicorn talk. Today, housing prices in MV "seem to be" 100% more than what they were in 2010. What the heck happened? Does "Unicorns" explain all of that? Forign investors? Ultra low interest rates??
Q4 2010 feels about right to me -- that's when companies started to hire more aggressively, anyway.
In retrospect, my first "this might be insane" moment happened when techcrunch wrote the "airbnb has arrived" article, announcing that they'd grown a horn and become a unicorn. That was June 2011.
