Having worked for both NY based and California based tech companies, I’ve seen the differences in contracts firsthand. It has often been said that the reason Silicon Valley is in CA and not back east is due to two worker protections that CA has:
- You own anything you make in your own time that is not related to your employer’s business in CA.
and - Non-competes are unenforceable in CA.
You can see, with typical NY machine politics ham-handed incompetence and corruption, NY is trying to incubate tech companies in their “Tech Valley,” and throwing a whole lot of money at it, but they won’t implement the worker protections that actually made SV take off.
