U.S. tech inventors are highly clustered because of idea spillover

Re:U.S. tech inventors are highly clustered because of idea ... by burlesona on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @07:41PM (#21329627)

I'm also surprised by Austin's rank.

I'm from the area, but moved to SF a while back for much better engineering work. I wouldn't mind moving back some day, but haven't seen many jobs or much upward mobility that would make me want to go back. There are a lot of tech companies but they are largely smaller / regional, or are the cost centers of bigger companies (support, back office stuff).

I get the impression that's changing, though. It would be great to see ATX keep booming and reach the level of say, the Seattle tech scene.

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Re:U.S. tech inventors are highly clustered because of idea ... by chrisco255 on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @12:21AM (#21331003)

Currently, Google has a 35 story building under construction downtown, Apple is expanding its Austin presence both with devs and manufacturing (new Mac Pro to be built here), Amazon and Facebook also expanding hiring here. A look at LinkedIn job openings shows VMWare, Walmart, Microsoft, Dell, Visa, Cloudflare, Mozilla, Auth0, Blizzard, and AMD all hiring here.

I think Austin still lacks HQ anchors of bigger tech companies save for Dell. But the developer presence is absolutely growing.

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Re:U.S. tech inventors are highly clustered because of idea ... by steveklabnik on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @08:57AM (#21334119)

I moved to Austin back in Feburary and I've met more folks from SF than folks from Austin.

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