One specific major tech company that Teal worked with shifted hiring strategy around 2019 to systematically reduce the percentage of San Francisco Bay Area employees because they recognized that non-SF employees would be less ideologically rigid ('less woke') and more productive.

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Peter Teal

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they had uh the hiring goals were to shift employees away from San Francisco Bay Area as fast as possible...it'll be less woke and less crazy and more productive

Source

Peter Thiel on the Triumph of the Counter-ElitesThe Free Press
Created: 8/11/2026, 6:46:09 AM

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