>budding

Literally Dell Computers is from Austin.

Has Dell done anything innovative since the 90s? It repackaged computer hardware in a cheap package filled to the brim with bloatware.

Dell has excellent value for money in their monitors. And has for more than 15 years. Line after line is consistently rated by a wide variety of computer reviewers as top quartile. Yes, you can argue they do not directly manufacture, but the end product is reliable and high quality.

They're not the only company in the region:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Hills

It was the example used and the list from that website its tough to tell which companies were satellite offices vs which were corporate/research HQ.

Not trying to belittle Austin - I know they have a tech scene - and I know every city is trying to capitalize on marketing their city as the next silicon valley (which is such a ridiculous thing to do for an incredibly long list of reasons).

I think Apple’s campus here is already bigger than anything they’ve got anywhere else, short of the giant UFO in Cupertino, and they’re still planning on expanding.

Amazon is here, and again they have a number of buildings in the Domain area. I think it might be their second or third largest site, behind HQ and possibly HQ2.

Of course Dell is here. Google doesn’t have much of a presence, yet.

There are lots of other companies that have massive presence here in Austin. Tesla is highly unlikely to be the biggest.

>it might be their second or third largest site, behind HQ and possibly HQ2.

Amazon largeset office presence outside of seattle (and bellevue which come consider seperate) is SouthBay cali, followed then by HQ2

Feels like they've moved on to Miami as the next SV. Maybe that means Austin is the next Seattle.

How many "Dellionaires" have gone on to found new startups or even become angel investors/LP's? I can only think of a couple. Overall, Dell's innovations were supply chain and direct mail, not technology.

They gave us Stoner Steve; I’m surprised he’s not more of a meme actually.

Yeah it's been about a 30-year drought for the Austin area since Dell

Also National Instruments

My bad, didn't meant to leave the rest of the coastline out.

And yes, hopefully these changes will turn Texas purple unless they continue to gerrymander the ish out of the whole state.