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For another metric, I'm getting that the Bay Area GDP is $800 billion [1] vs the overall US's $18 trillion [2], which would mean the Bay has 4.4% of the economic activity.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Area

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States

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Crazy to think that Google accounts for ~10% of that [1].

[1] http://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/020515/busine...

Google also has physical plant properties (think data centers) and offices around the world that are producing a meaningful portion of their revenue.

Btw, Apple had 3x Google's revenue in 2015.

In any case, Revenue != GDP due to double counting.

Very true. Both are global companies, even though their headquarters are there. I wonder what fraction of their income can be attributed to the SV area, and how that translates to their contributions to the GDP.

Not all of which stems from programming.

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