Why would Google have an office at ASU? (Tempe: low income, section 8)

[Voebe]

I find that odd, considering that ASU is a public university, and Google is a business corporation.

This is an article about Google's push to dominate schools

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/t...ools.html?_r=1

and what caught my attention was this:

Mr. Casap, the Google education evangelist, likes to recount Google’s emergence as an education powerhouse as a story of lucky coincidences. The first occurred in 2006 when the company hired him to develop new business at its office on the campus of Arizona State University in Tempe.

Mr. Casap quickly persuaded university officials to scrap their costly internal email service (an unusual move at the time) and replace it with a free version of the Gmail-and-Docs package that Google had been selling to companies. In one semester, the vast majority of the university’s approximately 65,000 students signed up.

[exit2lef]

I don't know the exact motivation, but the office closed in 2008, two years after it opened:

https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech...-Arizona_N.htm

[AZJD]

Because it beats working for Google in San Francisco or Mountain View, California....making $150,000 / year....and still being poor.

[dvxhd]

This is a new thing? I thought Daria offered a social commentary on something similar to this nearly 20 years ago:
"Daria" Fizz Ed (TV Episode 2001) - IMDb

That being said, you don't really think "don't tax me" Arizona just magically has these services, do you? Light rail and buses are in part funded by taxes, yet both allow advertising inside and outside vehicles. Currently Bank of America has rights to Arizona's Department of Economic Security unemployment benefits (and formerly, Chase did). Those lovely eyesores lining freeways you call billboards also siphon money into state coffers. Also, why are there grassroots movements and drives to fund public schools which are supposedly funded by the public?

If you don't like it, you need to pay more out-of-pocket costs or higher taxes.

[Hal Roach]

Governments could not function without contractors. That would include airports, hospitals, and universities. A tech company in the Valley? Almost always low wages.

[ShampooBanana]

Companies like Google and Microsoft have satellite campuses all over the US, usually next to large higher education institutions. This allows them to easily poach talent and work with the universities in their development curriculum so they can better prepare students to be ready to work for them once they graduate. It also provides a good intern talent pool. Why wouldn't they want to be near the best and brightest in any given area? Also, not everyone wants to live in ultra-expensive Silicon Valley.

[AZJD]

Originally Posted by ShampooBanana

Companies like Google and Microsoft have satellite campuses all over the US, usually next to large higher education institutions. This allows them to easily poach talent and work with the universities in their development curriculum so they can better prepare students to be ready to work for them once they graduate. It also provides a good intern talent pool. Why wouldn't they want to be near the best and brightest in any given area? Also, not everyone wants to live in ultra-expensive Silicon Valley.

Spot on.

It's so out of wack in that area of the country that you qualify for Section 8 and are considered a low income family if your salary is less than $105,000.

I know several people making close to $200,000 and they still can't buy a decent home.