News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Salesforce offer to relocate employees after Texas abortion law goes into effect. Parent comment

Re:Salesforce offer to relocate employees after Texas aborti... by thoughtstheseus on Saturday September 11, 2021 @07:53PM (#28497236)
Texas is almost purple. Powerhouse Austin is a democrat hub.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Salesforce offer to relocate employees after Texas aborti... by HelixEndeavor on Sunday September 12, 2021 @11:27PM (#28507585)
Austin is a "powerhouse"?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Salesforce offer to relocate employees after Texas aborti... by hn_throwaway_99 on Monday September 13, 2021 @02:18PM (#28514831)
Yes, it is. Austin is responsible for a disproportionate amount of the state's economy, and certainly well over-represented in areas like tech and VC funding [1]. I'd argue that for tech-specific entrepreneurship Austin is basically right after Bay Area and Seattle (Boston and NY are also obviously up there but a lot of their funding/new company formation is around the huge builtin base in those cities in finance and biotech).

[1] https://news.crunchbase.com/news/austin-reaches-top-10-in-us...

[ Parent | on HN ]