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 and 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 →
