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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