A massive tech company exodus is occurring in Texas, reports show::Numerous Silicon Valley tech companies have settled in Austin in recent years, but just as many are now leaving due to ‘lackluster’ startup scene.

    • @[email protected]
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      -247 months ago

      I know, right?

      Crazy how many companies have left CA in recent years.

      This article is a lot of noise, but very short on actual stats.

      TX has been attracting tech biz since the early 90’s with beneficial taxing structures. I find it hilarious how people just started noticing like 3 years ago.

      • @samus7070
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        57 months ago

        More like banking and finance. Many of them have shipped jobs out of New York and elsewhere to cities in the DFW area like Plano.

  • @[email protected]
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    877 months ago

    ‘A massive tech exodus’ in the headline, then names 3 large companies who never actually moved to Texas, and 3 companies nobody’s ever heard of.

    This isn’t journalism.

  • @[email protected]
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    637 months ago

    If you have skilled, high speed workers, you don’t want your lab in a state where you can’t get healthcare, such as an abortion.

    I bet obgyns are packing up to leave Texas as well, and maternity wards will soon close down.

  • Gazumi
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    397 months ago

    Science and Gilead don’t usually mix well

  • Bobby Turkalino
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    327 months ago

    “I moved the company here because Joe Rogan said it was a cool place but innovation isn’t magically happening as fast as I thought it would. Bummer.”

    • @[email protected]
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      77 months ago

      I dont think the overlap between tech worker and joe rogan listener is that significant, is it?

      • Bobby Turkalino
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        57 months ago

        The subset of “tech workers” that work on the business side of things, yes

      • @[email protected]
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        37 months ago

        Why? Is there some kind of test tech workers has to do that excludes them from being dumbfucks?

      • @[email protected]
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        -67 months ago

        Pretty sure Tech Workers, Joe Rogan Listeners, and Libertarians are a ven diagram that looks awfully like a circle.

          • @[email protected]
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            227 months ago

            The difference between people who adopt every internet of things device imaginable and people who would never own or permit such a device in their home under any circumstances.

    • edric
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      167 months ago

      I wish. The city itself is fine, being in Texas isn’t.

    • @[email protected]
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      57 months ago

      It’s ironic people use “Austin” to refer to the city itself as well as the government of Texas, and the two Austins hate each other.

  • @[email protected]
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    307 months ago

    TechCrunch is reporting that startup founders, like Techstars Managing Director Amos Schwartzfarb, are announcing their decisions to leave Austin’s “lackluster” startup scene.

    Who?

  • @[email protected]
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    257 months ago

    Of the examples they give, half never moved there in the first place, several are moving elsewhere in Texas, and one is going to Arizona. Very misleading title.

  • @onlinepersona
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    207 months ago

    A terrible article. Does nearly nothing to investigate the “why”.