Fortune 500 companies, SJ (Santa Clara County) vs. SF MSA
SJ (Santa Clara County) — 19
Apple
Google
Intel
HP
Cisco
TD Synnex
Netflix
Broadcom
Nvidia
PayPal
Applied Materials
Western Digital
Advanced Micro Devices
Adobe
Lam Research
eBay
Intuit
KLA
Sanmina
SF MSA — 17
Chevron
Meta
Wells Fargo
Gilead Sciences
Salesforce
Visa
PG&E
Ross Stores
Block
Uber
Gap
Franklin Resources
Williams-Sonoma
Open Door
Clorox
Equinix
Robert Half
As you can see, the number of F500 companies (all of them tech — software and hardware) concentrated in Santa Clara County is higher than the entire SF MSA. Six of the 17 headquartered in SF MSA are tech-related, the remaining ones being more legacy companies.
This is looking through a very narrow lens of course, but I think it does lend credence to the more "traditional" narrative of tech and start-ups being mostly synonymous with San Jose, while SF MSA is more blue-chip/white-shoe.
Tech being what largely defines and drives the Bay Area economy, how exactly does that make SF so much more "dominant" than SJ?
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