Over the last several weeks, Seattle has earned some coverage in The Wall Street Journal, The Information, and The SF Chronicle about our ranking as a “tech” city, or more directly as an alternative to San Francisco. It seems like Seattle has been the city of potential since I was a kid growing up here in the shadow of Microsoft. What might all those talented (and wealthy) tech workers leave Microsoft to create? But it’s never really come to pass.
I guess you don’t think Amazon Web Services got built by ex softies?