Sand Hill Road
nameEtymology
The road and its name existed in the 1920s and possibly before. The road was evidently named as a route toward a place called Sand Hill, but the Sand Hill in Oakley is not the referent, as it lies in a distant part of the Bay Area. The neighborhood sense and the venture-capital industry sense are by metonymy and are many decades newer.
Definitions
An arterial road in western Silicon Valley, California, running through Palo Alto, Menlo…
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.
- Holonym: Silicon Valley
A neighborhood of Palo Alto, California, named after the road.
- Holonym: Silicon Valley
- 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.
The Californian venture capital industry, including its influence on Big Tech and biotech.
- 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.
The neighborhood
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No curated loop yet for Sand Hill Road. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA