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Startup is growing quickly. Founder needs to find both high-potential engineers and experienced engineers. Hence the move to the Bay Area.

They've been having a lot of success recruiting graduating-students out of the university in their current town, so the Palo Alto option takes that playbook to Stanford.

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Good luck competing with Google and FB. Once you’re in the sloppy seconds and paying SV costs, you may as well have stayed home. So many high caliber grads in other schools. They’re all going to work from home anyway.

Experienced engineers will already be working from home.

This is untrue in my experience. The people who want to work at FB & Google are often just not going to be a good fit for early stage startups.

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