Bay Area Tech Wire

A Bay Area tech-news source that appears in Kyle’s corpus only as one line item in his 2017 startup-media inventory — the snapshot in The State of Startup Media - Research of what he was reading and following before the post-COVID explosion of founder blogs, Substacks, and newsletters. It sits at the tail of that list beside other newsletters and digests like StrictlyVC, Robinhood Snacks, and LAUNCH Ticker. The essay’s larger argument is that there used to be a shorthand — a handful of go-to places like this — for learning about startups, and that the Republic-of-Letters explosion of the internet supercharged the field to the point where there is no single go-to source anymore. Bay Area Tech Wire is one of the rotation entries from that earlier, more legible era; the wiki carries no further detail on it.

Where this appears

• The State of Startup Media - Research — listed in the 2017 inventory of startup-media sources, the “before” state against which the essay measures the post-COVID media explosion.