The tech community needs physical places to meet, program, pitch, make deals and brainstorm.

The Creamery never had particularly good coffee. What it did have was a perfect location at one of the technology industry’s most valuable intersections. The ramshackle café was in the start-up friendly SoMa district of San Francisco, across the street from the Caltrain station that ran commuters all the way down to San Jose at the southernmost tip of Silicon Valley.