Meaning of Sand Hill Road | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An arterial road in western Silicon Valley, California, running through Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Woodside, notable for its concentration of venture capital firms' offices.
2. A neighborhood of Palo Alto, California, named after the road.
3. The Californian venture capital industry, including its influence on Big Tech and biotech.
   metonymically

Examples

“Holonym: Silicon Valley”

“There was a time when funding for internet start-ups was so easy that what came to matter was not how much you could get but where it came from. And if you got it from Sand Hill Road, Wall Street regarded that much as Catholics regard a benediction from the Pope.”

“Yet there is little visible gloom along Sand Hill Road, a suburban business neighborhood where office real estate is among the most expensive in the world.”

“Near-synonym: Silicon Valley”

“Bryce Roberts said, “It has to be a way of disrupting Sand Hill Road”—where a number of the Valley’s top venture firms reside.”

“Such numbers aren’t everything to a candidate running for the president of the entire country and not just Sand Hill Road, especially at a point in the campaign when many donors are hedging their bets by backing multiple candidates.”

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