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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      52 years 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        52 years 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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    922 years 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.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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    592 years 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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    362 years ago

    Science and Gilead don’t usually mix well

    • edric
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      182 years ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      52 years 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.

  • Bobby Turkalino
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    352 years 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.”

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      102 years ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        122 years 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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            212 years 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.

      • Bobby Turkalino
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        42 years ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        12 years 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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    332 years 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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    252 years 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.