Origin
Built up during the gold-rush era; Wells Fargo opened its first San Francisco office in 1852. The cluster gained its "Wall Street of the West" nickname during the 1960s-70s rise of Bank of America (then headquartered at 555 California).
Who works here
- Wells Fargo (1 Front Street / 333 Market)
- Visa (in nearby Foster City) and Mastercard's tech offices
- Venture capital firms (Founders Fund, Benchmark, partly)
- Charles Schwab and tech-focused investment banks
Landmarks
- Transamerica Pyramid
- 555 California Street (former Bank of America Center)
- Salesforce Tower (the city's tallest)
Three indices a local would build
Open the prompt box pre-filled with one of these and turn it into a transparent, rule-based index in under a minute.
- An index of West-Coast-headquartered fintechs, market-cap weighted, US-listed only.open in builder →
- The seven Magnificent 7 stocks weighted by their San Francisco Bay Area headcount (proxied by SEC filings).open in builder →
- An index of US-listed payment networks and processors, capped at 15% per name.open in builder →
