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> Absolutely not. I've more than 40K customers at my startup and I live in a village no one has heard of in the UK.

Haha this made me check your profile — don't know if it's quite fair to say PostHog is proof that you don't need to be in SV to succeed given that you guys went through YC and also started in a remote-first (mid-pandemic) world.

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ok that is fair - going to SF frequently but not living there is something i should have been clearer on!

my cofounder and i go 3-4 x a year now, for 1 week at a time. it acts like an offsite - get out of usual routine, meet interesting people, do lots of meetings (we'd normally avoid this sort of thing), get ideas and up our ambition, then go home and build stuff for 3 months quietly. repeat!

in the early days, if you fundraise, then at least SF based firms are way better to deal with in general, of course with many exceptions

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