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Various places like Austin or Bos or Seattle have been aspiring to be another "SiliconValley" for past 25+yrs...and have failed to even come close in creating or attracting as many new BigTech HQs or valuable start-ups
Ironically, two of world's top 5 ComputerScience depts are IL and CarnegieMellon....and MI is decent, too
But nearly any top CS grad from such colleges flees to SV upon graduation for career opportunities and lifestyle
Same phenom in Boston, where top Harvard undergrads immediately flee to either Manhattan or SV for jobs....and the few useful MIT grads leave to SV
Data centers and sales offices are stuff any BigTech co. has in many major cities around globe; key question is where highest-paid engineers and founders work, not the clowns in sales/marketing/tech support
Various places like Austin or Bos or Seattle have been aspiring to be another "SiliconValley" for past 25+yrs...and have failed to even come close in creating or attracting as many new BigTech HQs or valuable start-ups
Ironically, two of world's top 5 ComputerScience depts are IL and CarnegieMellon....and MI is decent, too
But nearly any top CS grad from such colleges flees to SV upon graduation for career opportunities and lifestyle
Same phenom in Boston, where top Harvard undergrads immediately flee to either Manhattan or SV for jobs....and the few useful MIT grads leave to SV
Data centers and sales offices are stuff any BigTech co. has in many major cities around globe; key question is where highest-paid engineers and founders work, not the clowns in sales/marketing/tech support
Maybe that's the case in most instances, but not all. My brother has a Master's in CS from Illinois - Champaign. He's always worked in the Chicago area. (He was a doctoral candidate, so he was a top grad).
Various places like Austin or Bos or Seattle have been aspiring to be another "SiliconValley" for past 25+yrs...and have failed to even come close in creating or attracting as many new BigTech HQs or valuable start-ups
Ironically, two of world's top 5 ComputerScience depts are IL and CarnegieMellon....and MI is decent, too
But nearly any top CS grad from such colleges flees to SV upon graduation for career opportunities and lifestyle
Same phenom in Boston, where top Harvard undergrads immediately flee to either Manhattan or SV for jobs....and the few useful MIT grads leave to SV
Data centers and sales offices are stuff any BigTech co. has in many major cities around globe; key question is where highest-paid engineers and founders work, not the clowns in sales/marketing/tech support
Too true. Some have had more success than others. I remember when we left Champaign, IL (U of IL) in 1980. They were trying to get some "Champaign Tech Center' going. Never happened, despite the U of I. There's not much high tech in Pittsburgh, either, despite CMU.
Various places like Austin or Bos or Seattle have been aspiring to be another "SiliconValley" for past 25+yrs...and have failed to even come close in creating or attracting as many new BigTech HQs or valuable start-ups
Ironically, two of world's top 5 ComputerScience depts are IL and CarnegieMellon....and MI is decent, too
But nearly any top CS grad from such colleges flees to SV upon graduation for career opportunities and lifestyle
Same phenom in Boston, where top Harvard undergrads immediately flee to either Manhattan or SV for jobs....and the few useful MIT grads leave to SV
Data centers and sales offices are stuff any BigTech co. has in many major cities around globe; key question is where highest-paid engineers and founders work, not the clowns in sales/marketing/tech support
Austin didn't fail ! This city has an huge growth, it's just the beginning, I can see it becoming a new Silicon Valley, a new rival.
This city recently had 200 jobs created by Facebook, it's the first time facebook creates jobs outside California.
Because it's a very promising area.
Location: Austin, TX/Chicago, IL/Houston, TX/Washington, DC
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Austin didn't fail ! This city has an huge growth, it's just the beginning, I can see it becoming a new Silicon Valley, a new rival.
This city recently had 200 jobs created by Facebook, it's the first time facebook creates jobs outside California.
Because it's a very promising area.
That's right, Facebook got a new office in downtown Austin in March.
Not Silicon Valley, they already call Austin the Silicon Hills. Because technically Austin isn't in a valley.
Various places like Austin or Bos or Seattle have been aspiring to be another "SiliconValley" for past 25+yrs...and have failed to even come close in creating or attracting as many new BigTech HQs or valuable start-ups
I don't think you can include Seattle in that statement- Seattle is a huge Silicon Valley type of place, a major tech hub, probably number 2 right behind Silicon Valley. Besides the big ones like Microsoft, Amazon, and Expedia there are countless other tech companies based here, tech rules this area.
Austin didn't fail ! This city has an huge growth, it's just the beginning, I can see it becoming a new Silicon Valley, a new rival.
This city recently had 200 jobs created by Facebook, it's the first time facebook creates jobs outside California.
Because it's a very promising area.
Austin is a good little tech hub but it took Silicon Valley over 25 years to become what it is...I think Austin still has a while to go before it can even come close to matching Silicon Valley.
Some Companies who HQ's are in SV
Google
Apple
Yahoo
Intel
Facebook
Youtube
Twitter
HP
ebay
Tesla
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