Sand Hill Road

English

Proper noun

Sand Hill Road

1. A neighborhood of Palo Alto, California, known for its concentration of venture capital companies.

   Synonyms: Sand Hill, SHR

   • 2001 August 25, John Naughton, “There is a message in the dust on Sand Hill Road”, in The Observer‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 2003 December 29, John Markoff, “The Year Ahead: Consolidation and Competition as an Industry Grows Up”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     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.

2. (metonymically) The Californian venture capital and tech industry.
   • 2016 October 3, Tad Friend, quoting Bryce Roberts, “Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny”, in The New Yorker‎^[3]:

     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.

   • 2019 July 30, Julia Carrie Wong, “Young, Ivy League and data-driven: why venture capitalists love Pete Buttigieg”, in The Guardian‎^[4]:

     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.

Further reading

• Sand Hill Road on Wikipedia.Wikipedia