Seattle: Salesforce HQ2

[DJKirkland]

Originally Posted by Blondebaerde

Wondered what OP was/is on about...this is the best news I've heard all day. Similarly, I live literally four miles (or less) from Google's Kirkland campus and if they want to double or treble that, I'm all for it. They expanded big once, they'd need permission to go up (would block views). Traffic is a train wreck in that area during rush hour, they'd have to solve it (very painful due to residential roads), but otherwise...?

What, is there going to be some sort of Socialist revolution such that the 90% gets their "fair share"? I'm all for ensuring that these companies pay LOTS into city coffers for infrastructure, but other boondoggles...not so much. I am *only* here because in 1998, Microsoft made me an offer from Bay Area I'd have been stupid to not take. And it's paid pretty well since, thanks.

Further, I am a Salesforce fanboy, it is literally the hottest tech in CRM at the moment. They are exploding, the article is not hyperbole. Maybe you know Tableau is also a major player in BI...one of the biggest, but...$15B, jeebus would NEVER have guessed they that that kind of market cap. That shows you how big Salesforce is and how dead-nuts serious they are about owning that space and kicking Microsoft's Dynamics 365 right in the nether regions.

(Opinion, as Jim Kramer says: don't hold me to it): Salesforce is a buy-and-hold if you'd like to make money on a three year horizon. I've sure as hell put my money where my mouth is, since I puzzled this out about a year ago.

End soapbox. Nothing is dying, this is fantastic news. That's what C-D is for, disagreement and different perspectives. It's all good.

P.S.:

RE expansion, moving beyond scope of the article and into growth in-general: I could care less if they ban cars downtown and expand mass transit such that it is economically infeasible to commute in by car in any way, shape, or form. I took the bus for most of a year each morning though cramped and loud, it's a helluva lot easier than sitting in the car for two hours. Free, too, w/company subsidies for using alternate commute options.

It was sarcasm. I think Seattle is doing great :-)

[flyingsaucermom]

Not in tech, but my life depends on it... so the more, the merrier!

[Blondebaerde]

Originally Posted by jakebarnes

Good for the techies! Start building public housing for the servants.

Friend, a sonofagun on my team in grad school some years ago...we didn't get along personally, but worked well together (figure that one out)...told me the following under a very similar situation:

"(BB), don't get mad, get even!"

Might want to think about doing same. Yeah, I know the whole "bootstraps" argument causes lots of consternation over in another part of C-D (Work and Emp). Still, I did, going from modest money in 1998 (a 100% salary increase over previous, pre-1998, in another industry) to frankly quite-good coin these days. 20 years of struggle, two steps forward and one backward w/o exception, and here I am...

[Blondebaerde]

Originally Posted by DJKirkland

It was sarcasm. I think Seattle is doing great :-)

I'll take a Mulligan then. One never knows, around here...some odd opinions (uh, including mine) sometimes start ricocheting around

[Yorkshire Kooky]

Originally Posted by flyingsaucermom

Not in tech, but my life depends on it... so the more, the merrier!

Phew, thanks, flyingsaucermom - I was beginning to feel guilty about moving over on Monday, pushing up your COLs even further.

Not in tech myself (any more) but my husband is, and it pays the bills and allows me to work in the charity sector so I'm a fan.